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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-11-02
POSTOFFICE Department.
Rural Free Delivery a Benefit
to Farmers.

Rural free mail delivery is the most
striking extension of posta! facilities
brought about in the last rour years. On
June !. 1900. there were LEO rural SER
vices in actual operation, and 1000 APP
plications for an extension OF the sys-
tom then in process of establishment.
The appropriations for the rural free
delivery service have been Increased from
$4,000 in the fiscal year iS9I-S TO Si5D,-
600 in 1880. then 10 Sl50.ODn in $500
1900. and lastly 10 Sl.IlO.Oop for The
present fiscal year l3oo-l9ol.
Three years experiences has shown
that in wcll-selected rnral districts the
mails can be distributed 10 the doniiciles
OF the addresses or i'll hnxcs placed with
in reasonable distance of tle farmers
home ut some crossroad or other conycn-
lent spot 81 Il cost per piece not exceed
ing the free delivery in many cities.
Done by the Republicans
Iii was IL Republican administration
that conceived and executed the idea Of
Frightening the home of the farmer. ed
ucating his children. increasing the value
of his land. compelling the improvement
of the roads. and bringing him news of
the markets and of the weather. so as to
secure him IL better price for his crops
by delivering his daily mail TO him ON
his farm.
EVERY DEMOCRATIC HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, SINCE THE
IDEA WAS FIRST BROACIIED OF
CARRYING THE MAILS INTO THE
RURAL DISTRICTS HAS DEC.4AR-
! ED AGAINST 1T. TIIE FORTY
THIRD CONGRESS. WITH A DEMO
Graf FROM NORTH CAROLINA
AS CHAIRMAN OF THE CONNIE
TEE ON POSTOFFICES AND POST
IMPOSSIBLE AND TURNED 1T
DOWN. POSTMASTER GENERAL
BISSEI.I., POSTMASTER GENERAL
| WILSON AND FIRST ASSISTAN M
POSTMA STER GENERAL JONES.
IN THE CLEVELAND ADMINS
| TRATION. ALL TOOK UP THE CRY
OF ENTRAVAGANCE AND rMPOS-
SlBII.ITY OF EXECUTION.
Consequently little or nothing was
lone to give the farmers access to the
mails until Cleveland went out of office.
When First Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Perry s. Heath took mp the rural
free delivery service under the direction
of the President and the Postmaster
General, in March, 1897, it was lam
gushing to the point Of extinguishment,
and in u few months more would have
been starved to death. s.
They at once grasped its possibilities
and advocated its immediate develop
ment, and u Republican Congress gener-
onsly seconded their cffclts Under their
vivifying touch it has sroen until there
is now not a State in The Union that has
not felt the ciyilizing and educatiopal in
fucnce of the rural free mail delivery,
aud not one that does not desire a fur
Their expansion.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-11-02

~stration in favor Of the public credit. and
showed to other nations the tremendous
resources which the people of the United
States were able to command almost at a
moments notice. The success OF the war
loan had an effect, both at home and
ubroad. scarcely less. important than
were the naval victories ut Manila and
Santiago.
Pacific Railroad Indebtedness.
The settlement Of the Pacific Railroad
indebtedness is also to be ranked AZ II
of the greatest achievements of Presi-
dent Mckinley's administration. This
indebtedness had for years been a sub
ject Of frnitless e%ndeavor; all efforts,
either by Congress or the executive de-
partments prior to 1897, were of little
avail in protecting the governments In
tcrest in these roads; in fact, there were
grave doubts whether the government
would succeed in being reimbursed, even
in part. the vast sum expended by the
United States in aid of their construction.
Yet the Mckinley administration. by a
firm and business-like course, achieved
great success.
Out Of an Indebtedness of abont $780,
OOO.OOO, more than 0ne-half Of which
consisted of accrued interest, the govern
ment realized. in cash or Its equivalent.
the sum Of $124,421,G7O.85 within u Pc
Rod of less than two years.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-11-02
OF
AGRICULTURE.
Good Work Done for Farmers
by Mckinley.

The diseases of farm animals lave re-
ceived special study in the Department.
of Agriculture in the last four years.
Nearly 100000 doses of biacklcg vac
cine have been distributed among the
farmers and cattle owners i'll the infected
districts, with the result that the mortal-
ity among the young cattle in the infect
cd districts has been reduced from ten to
fifteen per cent annually to one-half Of
one per cent. In the case of sheep, the
gasoline process for eNterminating para
sites has met with great success. In hog
cholera and swine plague seventy to
eighty per cent Of treated animals have
been saved.
Butter. Eggs and Pork.
Encouraging results have been reached
in the shipment OF butter and eggs to
England and also remote poists in Asia.
The inspection of pork advanced from
22.9OO.S s in 1896 to 1OS,9oS, 1875 In 1899,
or nearly 800 per cent.
Aiming to create al home supply OF
cllicory. the department has seen the inn
ports fall from 81 value of 500 in
1896 to $13.47O in 1899.
In seed testing and in seed and plant
Introduction Il large number of improved
products have been added tn American
cultivation, notably Il resistant alfalfa
from Iurke>tan. Il dronght-reSistirg
grass from southern Russia. aud several
cereals adapted to the arid regions.
Porto Rico and the Philippines.
AS soon as Porto Rico began to he OF
special interest an exhaustive report was
prepared on the commerce uf that island,
setting forth in the fullest possible man
ner the character of the trade carried on
with the several foreign countries. and
especially With the United States.
Later Il report of 100 pages was pub
!islrd regarding the trade of The Philip
pines. embracing practically all the avail
able statistics on Tho subject that could
he collated from the official import and
export returns of the various countries
enjoying commercial intercourse with the
islands.
Owing to the scarcity of reliable data
relative to Cuba. Porto Rico and the
Philippines. the preparation Of the re-
ports III these former Spanish posses
sions required Il vast amount Of research.
Gracses and Forage Plants.
Experiments With grasses and forage
plants have been vigorously prosecuted
during the past three years. These eX-
perimcntS are necessary in order that
ranclers and farmers may be informed
OF the kinds suitable for heir respective
districts. After these preliminary facts
are determined the promising varieties
can he recommended and adopted With
ont further and useless expenditure of
time and money.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-11-02
WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS.

The war in Cuba and in the Philippines threw upon the department. vast auto of work. in opaHmgpe equip
transporting the various organizations to MRC camps rr rendezvous.
Thew were mustered mo organized moiEad and distributed at home and broad and finally mustered out of
5000 United States volunteers organized into twenty-five regiments. tWcnHtwu of which We're Transported to
the Philippine Stands the remaining three having leno organized there from the discharged Volunteers and reg
lars
There we're enlisted md Nnhl for the rM army between Nay l. iis and jan 81. 1890 5000
the various staff duamensm d3G4 United States vdmhwro Mm.
The department received carefully considered ucd un and sent NOsMM eaammm and prMmaMy2 1000
600 writer communications.
Immediately upon the passage of the bill apnuaMg& OOOOW for the national dM0. a bu was
organized for the purchase Of auxiliary ships Md after careful examination 1g ships of various types we're
secured at tmlc t f$791SO OF these vessels but two, the New Orleans and the Albany, were My
vessels fwE
Between March M and June 30 te vessels were prMaM and as rdy as oehdadw we're placed in
commissions and put into ade sMe
In addition to the ships which we're adM to the navy Mp uwMe, fifteen ec cutters md four Lighthouse
international Navigation Company and one of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company were chartered here were
nah 1855 ships added to the regular nh establishment and it became at once necessary to pOMde officers and
mel to nan them For this purpose GS 0Mr ON heW ul list were ordered to active du.S $50 officers were
appntd for tnruysa service and the Mtd hew was increased from NO to over $4,000 men,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-11-02
{ WHAT The MCKINLEY A6N1NIS7 IA non HAS Done.
THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

Thew work. the Dpmmmnto State in the last four ears has bmm most ewhL covering the war with
SPAIN the saOanH hawaiian and Alaskan incidents, the South African wars and the. open door" in China
The hfm brilliant pnd war with Spain was followed by pwimhanIsh pence signed on Aug 49, pro-
vs for the rMWhmntf of sovereignty" over Cuba. thee Mn of Porto Rico and other islands belonging to
pain in the West Mds together with an slm the Iadne.n bes decelby the UMdS States dkr
the acquisition the Philippines.
Tsam muno the Hawaiian Island to her nnd States. the c~hn Of um. and he acquisition oft he
Philippines extend the swrHyof ts governmental cross the Pacific ocean, and provide series of naval sta
hsm nd MumsoG cmm@ce which Promise to facilitate incidentally the oriental trade md@ secure The pathway
TO an opening market of MMaSng Importance
The cxMm dmsm the Canadian WcMmtM with reference to the ALASKAN boundary have nevertheless
been firmly met by the President who thus far preserved our important hrnomMM right by the moMs vi
vhu Oct 90 1880 and defeated uG uemph to- destroy the mmMyof our Alaskan. coast line and to divide
the cd MucN Northern Pacific
Ba timely series diplomatic notes Secretary Hay obtained a~unrmm from the governments of Germany
GM Britain. italy Japan and Russia by which they pledged themselves mott interfere with ep perfect free
THE UNOBsTKUCTED NJOYMENr % THE pRTWIEGEs NJ TRADE is THUS SECURED TO
AMERICA FACTUR AND MERCHANTS ~ III FHEE CONSENT OF TIL OWE
Had circumstances &dt that nep PARTIES oue quarrel would have d@mcla any Kindly epr~imM the
hope of the American people that warm be a"Ml. good offices would have been gladly rendered"
proposals of hm,mhnps pc~msnu rgns unaware the nature or Mmt0n relations the manMy .m
by hMg government UM. have pWdnm al@NgWm MmMet toward Great BnMm in violation of Its principle
and policy Of neutrality
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-11-02
Summary Of the Achievements in the De.
partments at Washington.
Unprecedented Results Accomplished in Every Department o
the Government Since March 4th, 1897.

The three great pledges made In the Republican platfGrm ~
which Mckinley was elected four years ago, were!
4. To place the money nystem on a firm basis.
2. To reform the Damaging Wilson tariff o q . to protect
American capital and labor.
8. To reassert the Monroe doctrine in its full extent.
4. To maintain a firm and digntfei foreign policy with
American control of the Hawaiian Islands.
ALL THESE PLEDGES HAVE BEEN FAITHFULLY FUIr
FILLED.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-09
CONDITION or THE WEATHER
HIS WIFE WAS HIS COUSIN
Family skeleton la the Closet of
Formc- NcbrrsI<aus stalks out
Into the Liyht.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. S.-(Special Tele-
g~ramD-Rev. G. W. Smith, pastor OF the
First Austrian church OF Oakland, has sued
his wife for divorce on the ground of de-
s%ortion. Plaintiff is the son OF a former at
torney general of Nebraska and counsellor
fer the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
road. Mrs. Smith was formerly Laura May
Drummond, a belle of Nebraska City. The
young people have not lived together for
a year.
Some weeks ago a sermon by Rev. Mr..
Smith attracted particular attention and
comment. 1t was an ancient text; The
bed is too short and the covering too mar
row." In that discourse the preacher, with
suppressed emotion, said there are many
people making a bed for themselves on
which they try to stretch, but the covering
being too narrow d~iscloses their deeds, their
social, political or their religious condition.
The commen excited at the time has re-
vealed the fact that the young preacher has
a wife on the other side of the Rockies,
but the couple have lived separate and
apart for some time. Discovery was made
that the young couple were cousins and the
wife left her husband on thai account, both
agreeing that marriage relations under such
conditions could not be sustained. Every
effort has been made to keep the proceed
ings secret.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-09
PLAGUE APPEARS AT MANILA
Information of the Discovery of Three
Cnses-Condned to Natives
Thus Far.

a-.
WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-The plague has
broken out in Manila beyond a doubt, as ap-
pears from the following cablegram received
by Surgeon General Sternberg:
"MANILA, Jan. 6.-Three bubonic natives.
"GREENLEAF."
The signer is Colonel G~reenleaf, assistant
surgeon general and chief surgeon in the
Philippines.
1t was suspected last week that the disease
had obtained a foothold in Manila, but 1t
was not until Colonel Greenleaf's report
that the fact was established. The first eff
feet will probably be to have quarantine
laid upon all shipping coming from Manila.
The town will be placed under the most
rigid sanitary regulations, and this work
will be undertaken by Colonel Greenleaf,
pending the arrival at Manila of the marine
hospital service officers now on the way.
General Sternberg says that Colonel Green
leaf is exceptionally well fitted to cope with
the present emergency and he has no doubt
that the disease will soon be stamped out.
1t Is noted that the cases of plague re-
ported are confined to the native class and
it is said that that has been the case in
most of the cities of Asia where the disease
has appeared. 1t is notably true of Hong
Kong, where it has existed for many
months, without causing any considerable
fatality among the European population.
1t was probably from Hong Kong that the
disease found its way to Manila. The med
ical officers have been all along on the watch
to prevent it, but owing to the closeness of
Hong Kong to Manila and the large amoung
of traffic carried on by native junks and
dhows, the ultimate introduction of the
disease into Manila was inevitable.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-09
ALL SAY IT WAS MOlINEUX
Important Testimony In New York
Murder TrinI-ProsecutiOn to
Close This Wees.

NEW YORK, Jan. S.-The developments
in today's proceedings in the trial of Roland
b. Molineux for the murder of Mrs. Kath-
crime j. Adams brought the hope that the
pr prosecution would get through with its case
by the end of the present week. Three wit
nesses gave important testimony.
Morris Herman, a member OF the firm in
Newark, for which Mr.. Molineux was super
intendent, said that the firm OF Morris, Her
man & Company, went into the dry color
business in 1896 with Molineux as superin-
tcndent and It was upon the %latter's knowl-
edge of dry colors and chemical recipes that
they started to work. Evidence was intro
duced last week to show the ease with
which cyanide of mercury, the poison which
il alleged to have killed Mrs. Adams, could
be produced by a combination OF dry colors.
Edwin B. Hay of Washington testified as
an expert in handwriting. He gave it as
his opinion that the letters signed Barnet
and Cornish" and the admitted handwrit
ing were written by the same person. He
said it was his opinion that the admitted
handwritings and disputed writings in the
Barnet AMI Cornish" letters and that
of the poison package address were all
written by one man and that man was the
prisoner at the bar.
Alfred II. Graham, paying teller OF the
Bank of North America, testified to having
received the writings in evidence in the cases
and of having carefully studied them. He
said there was absolutely no doubt in his
mind that the address on the poison package
and that on the bogus Barnet ard Cornish
letters were all written by the same hand
that wrote the admitted letters.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-09
TWO MAYORS IN SACRAMENTO
Land and Clark Both Exercising Pow
ers of the omce-Much Feel
Ing Aroused.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Jan. S,-Both Mayor
William Land and Mayor-elect George Clark
are today exercising the powers OF the may
or's office OF this city. Mayor Clark this
morning notified Chief OF Police Ash to re-
ceive orders from nobody but himself, Later
Mayor Land requested Chief Ash TO suspend
officers George Naghel and Michael Fisher
for their conduct last night In aiding in
his ejectment from the office OF mayor to
make way for Clark.
Mayor Land has notified all the city de-
partment that he still is mayor and he claims
that he shall exercise the prerogatiyes OF
office until the suit brought against Clark
by a citizen named Bradley to prevent his
taking Office, because Of the alleged Viola
tion OF the purity of the election law is de-
ermined.
Clark declines TO agree to Lands pro-
posals for adjustment of the matter or any
terms other than his complete surrender.
The suit against Clark taking his seat
comes up in the supreme court tomorrow
and so much feeling has been aroused
among citizens and politicians on the ques-
ton that a judge from an outside county will
doubtless be called.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-09
FREE SKATERS DISSATISFIED
Indignant ut T~ransvaRI Officials
Complain of Lack of Food
Beers Disconnected.

Copyright, 1900, by Press Publishing Coz
FRERE CAMP, Jan. 6.-7:30 p. m.-(By
Runner, L~adysmith, Jan. 2)-(New York
World Cablegram-Special Telegrnm.)-It
is reported here that the Beers are with
drawing their wagons from behind Biggars
burg. The Beers are said to be utterly
disconnected They have bread once a week,
with coffee very short.
The Free Staters are indignant at the
arbitrary assumption of authority by the
Transvaal officers. They complain bitterly
that no captured cattle are served by the
commissariat, which only supplies them
with mealy meat. The Transvaal officials
inform them that If they want cattle they
must go to Ladysmith and get them.
1t is believed here that the Beers intend
to give one battle, then retreat to Majuba,
but fancy they will attempt to defend
the Biggarsburg line.
The Beers stretch wires across the roads,
which ring electric bells near the pickets,
the object being to prevent native runners
from getting out.
Louis Botha and Ben V. Goen are acting
as supreme commandants in Natal. Cen
eral Joubert is said to have gone to Pre-
toria. STUART,
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-09

d. Mormon, resigned. South Dakota-T. a.
Gray Of Bushnell, Bookings county; w.
II. Peek at Corona, Roberts county; II.
L. Hanson at Hanson, Yankton county;
Cyrus Smith at Medas, Sanborn county;
Irving Graham at strand, Day county.
~Iowa-Frank Holmes at Galesburg, Jasper
county, and j. L. Jones at Union Mills,
Mahaska county.
Helen r.. Burton has been appointed a
clerk in the Cedar Rapids Qa.) postofice,
The Northwestern National bank of Chi
cago was today approved as reserve agent
for the First National bank Of Harting-
ton.
Congressman Gamble ant Burke today rec
commended Kasper Kennedy for ]reappoint-
ment as postmaster at S%isscton, S. D., which
office was recently raised to the presidential
class.
Attorney Bayre Of Sioux Falls, S. D.,
was today admitted TO practice before the
United States supreme court.
Superintendent Pierce of the Oneida wis
Indian school will nos take charge of the
Flandreau Is. d. school until February 1.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-09
HOW TIE HIGHLANDERS RAN
Appalling Battle Picture from BRIT
ish Point of Niew-iirignde
Badly ScnrcG.

Copyright, 1900, by Press Publishing Coz
LONDON, Jan. S.-(New York World Ca
blegram-Special Telegram)-The mail &C
count received today from l. b. Whigham,
Morning Post correspondent with General
Methuen, Of the collapse q the Highland
brigade at Magersfontein conveys the most
appalling battle picture, from a British point
Of view, yet furnished by this disastrous
war. In describing the effect of the uneN
pected Beer fire when the brigade was just
about deploying from the quarter column
Whigham says:
Some one shouted retire and the day was
lost. The Highlanders broke and ran; there
is no other word for it.
They did not run far, only a few hundred
yards, but when they rallied they were
shaken and confused. For hours they lay fiat
on the ground between the British guns and
the Boer trenches. About . o'clock the Boer
rifle fire greatly increased and, simulta-
n%eously. the brigade was seen in full re-
treat. Back they came in a wave. No off,
Ger could stop it, perhaps the nest un-
pleasant sight a British soldier has ever
beheld. 1t certainly was a sight never to be
forgotten.
at Is difficult to say what happened next.
unless Major Ewart ran up an order from
General Methuen, which was almost an
entreaty to the effect that all he asked was
for the brigade to hold its position until
dark. So riddled and shattered was the
| brigade that Ewart actually had no other
officer to help him give an order to the
scattered men.
at was no small thing to ask of the
Highlanders that they should again face the
CALLING fire for five mortal hours. Still a
very fair rally was effected. The pipers
| played somewhat dolefully and the brigade
at last got back to a spot where it had a
certain amount Of cover. Here they lay until
the Boer guns, till then absolutely silent,
| suddenly came into play.
at wanted but this last straw to break
the nerve of the rallying Highlanders. When
the first shrapnel burst, what remained of
the brigade with one accord came right
back as far as the field hospital, hopelessly
beaten for the day. They We're not fit even
to guard the baggage. They had lost fifty
seven officers killed and wounded. Could
human nature stand more?"
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-09

was a desperate fight. the British entrench-
mcnts being thrice taken and retaken, and
at dusk, the Deyonshire regiment, at the
point OF the bayonet, drove out the Beers
from another position which they had occu-
pied all day long.
The news spread with astonishing rapidity
all over London and caused an instantaneous
change in the aspect Of the metropolis,
Smiling faces we're seen everywhere, and
even at the sedate foreign Office and other
departments Of the government great ella
ton was shown.
The newspapers were all jubilant. The
Conservative Standard in big headlines an
nounced a glorious victory at Ladysmith.'
The Stock exchange received the news
with rousiug cheers and prices Immediately
assembled in all departments.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-09
SAD END OF EVENTFUL LIFE
Dead Rody of sister Augusta Found
on Lake shore Near Kcnoshn-
Mysterious Death.

KENOSHA, Wis, Jan. S.-The dead body
of Sister Augusta was found on the lake
shore today, having been thrown ashore by
the waves. She disappeared from Kemper
hall on Tuesday last after attending the
annual retreat of the Sisters OF st. Mary.
Her disappearance was mysterious. The
case is believed to be suicide. Sister Au-
gusta's former home was in st. Louis.
A society girl, bred in England, of
wealthy parents, she lived in luxury for
many years. She was we'll educated and
while in school she fell in love with a
young man whose greatest fault was the
fact that he was poor. Later the engage
ment, which had arisen between them, was
broken by the parents of the girl.
In a short time she came to this country
and was connected with the Sisters of st.
Mary. The iance also sought America for
his home and 1t Is now asserted that he
found fortune. After several years OF
search Miss Henderson was finally found
in Chicago at the Sisters home and it Is
said that it was arranged for her to leave
the order last week. How she msnaged to
get away from the city unobserved is a
mystery.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. Sister Augusta, who
disappeared in a mysterious manner from
Kemper hall after attending the annual re-
treat of the Sisters of st. Mary and whose
dead body was found on the lake shore at
Kenosha, Wis, was well known here. AS
Miss Gussie Henderson she was conspicu-
Gus in Episcopal church circles, being active
in parish work.
The Henderson family came to st. Louis
from Virginia and connected themselves
with the Trinity congregation. Ultimately
Miss Henderson became a teacher at the
Episcopal Orphans home here. Seven years
ago she resigned and, accompanied by her
mother, went to Chicago. Six months later
her mother died and she decided to devote
her life to religious work. She has a mar
,;od oictar in CT ToIiS