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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-12
BLOODY PRICE PAID BY ENGLAND.
Total Death Losses In South African
Campaign Are Nearly 10000.

Campaign Are Nearly 10000.
LONDON, July 5.-The war Office has
issued report of the British casual
ties in South Africa since the begin
ming of the war. The total losses, ex.
elusive of sick and wounded, have
been 9,7O6, of which the killed in
action were e54 officers and 81, 403 nom
commissioned officers and men; died of
wounds, 70 officers and 6l0 non-com.
missioned officers and men; missing
and prisoners, 65 officers and 1894
non-commissioned officers and men;
died of disease, 1873 officers and 4,204
non-commissioned officers and men;
invalided home, S44 officers and 1s.433
nop.conmissioned officers and men.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-12

The Scotchman who invented me
Mafeking blend of porridge received
a bonus of SIS from the government, SO
invaluable was it to the garrison's ra-
tions supply, it being equal to six
weeks additional provisions. The ma
&ives prefer IL to any other food.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-12

Notwithstanding the difficulties and
dangers attending trip OF from l'2OO
20 |, 400 miles over snow and ice in the
most Indictment season of the year, no
less than 700 people left Dawson for
Nome between Dec. 4, 1899, and March
Z, 1900.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-12

From the way some people act, one
would think it wouldn't be safe for
them to go to sleep for fear they
would attempt to turn over and would
roll off the earth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-12

The Methodists have 142 mission
aries in China, the Presbyterians 209,
and the American Board of Commits
sioners for Foreign Missions no.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-12

INDEPENDENCE, July 9.-The hard
ware firm of Randall & Jacobs Is bank
rupt. The assets are IS, 900, with Ina
bilities of $1,000.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-12

In China. twelve miles from Lion
Chek, there is a mountain of alum
which yields 100 tons yearly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-12
II D. q MOTT.
AUDUBON.
IOWA.

notice, but only accomplishment gains
applause.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-12

Harry West has returned from New
York, where he went to meet the par.
ties with whom he is negotiating for
the organization of a company which
will operate the packing house prop
critics in Des MONIES. Mr. West said.
AS result of my trip can say con-
fidently that the packing houses will
be opened this fall and operated dur
ing the winter season to their capac-
ity. The company will be composed
of experienced packing house men
who have been engaged in the business
for years, know the markets and have
an outlet for their product and who
will have sufficient capital to carry on
the business. Further than this l
cannot give out a great deal of infor-
nation at this time. One of the gen.
tlemen who will be interested in the
project, and who will be at the head of
the institution, is now effecting a set
Element of his affairs to come to Des
Moines to give the business his per-
sonal attention, and until he closes
this matter he does not want to be
known in the packing house deal"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-12

General Byers has received mes
sage from the quartermaster general
at Washington to the effect that the
state will receive back the tentage
with which the volunteers were furn.
ished when they entered the United
States service in 1898. The tentage
has already been ordered shipped to
Des Moines from the depots at st
Louis, Chicago, and st. Asapeth, Va
This will insure the guard good tent
tentage at the encampments, and is
regarded as an important accession
to the quartermaster's stores of the
state.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-12

The proba bilities are that practically
all Of the brick for the top or sarface
course Of about seven miles of brick
paving to be laid in Council BluffA this
year and next spring, will be furnished
by Des Moines brick makers. The first
order has been placed with the Capital
City Brick and Pipe company for all
the bevel edged brick it can supply this
season and the company expects to de-
liver about 100000 brick before cold
weather sets in. 1t is expected that
other orders equally as large will be
placed with the Flint and Iowa COM
panies and that the delivery will be
commenced in ten day or two weeks.
The work will necessitate the use OF
several times as many brick as have
already been ordered and it is con-
sidered almost certain that the orders
for the balance will be placed here
in a short time. Altogether the order
is one OF the largest ever placed with
Des Moines brick makers and will keep
the plants fairly busy for the balance
of the season, though it will not tax
their capacities and the manufacturers
are out for more orders in other cities
In which paving will be done this
year.
The big orders come at an opportune
time. The paving brick industry, be-
cause of litigation and the large
amount o. work that has been COM
pleted in the past three or four years,
has been unusually dull during the
past two seasons and the yards have
been running largely on orders for
builders. But this season the building
brick trade has not been as good as
1t was last year and the indications
were. up to the time the Council Bluffs
orders were placed, that some of the
yards would have to run short time or
close down until stocks on hand were
disposed Of.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-12
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.
DIES MONIES, july Q. 1900.

YES uoiNhc, culy b, loUO.
Hon. Smith MCPHERSON, Judge Of the
federal court of the southern district
of Iowa, was in the city few days
ago for the first time since taking his
oath of Office. While In the city he
announced the appointment of Miss
Grace Woolson as his private secretary
and also confirmed the announcement.
OF the appointment of William Hamp-
move to Des Moines, as it has been
fumored, but will make his permanent
headquarters at Red Oak.
In an opinion recently submitted to-
the executive council by ATTORNEY
General Remley it was held that build
ing and loan associations have no right.
to contract an indebtedness, other.
than the stock authorized to be issued
in accordance to law. This is a aues-
ton that has been causing trouble
to the executive council. In amend
ing their articles of incorporation
many of the building and loan, and
savings and loan associations have
been insistent in demanding from the.
council that they be allowed to pro-
vide for Indebtedness other than the
stock. In some instances, they have
asked that the limit of Indebtedness
which they should be allowed to con-
tract, should be placed at as high a
figure as rs per cent of the stock. The
council opposed this as illegal.
and to settle the question finally asked
for an opinion. Mr.. Remley's opinion
leaves no doubt on the subject. He
comes out in flat-footed terms and OBJ
poses the legality of the method of
contracting Indebtedness such as the
companies propose.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-12

The building and loan law passed
by the last legislature has been de.
clared unconstitutional by Judge Bis
hop of the district court, in so far as
it affects existing contracts. The
Iowa Central Building and Loan AS.
ISOLATION sought to foreclose against
one Wilson, claiming Sl,Oi7. Wilson
admitted the obligation, but claimed
that under the new law the associa.
ton could collect only SS0S. The as.
ISOLATION demurred to this defense Oh
the ground that the law was unconsti.
tutional in that it impairs the obliga-
ton of contract, deprives plaintiff OF
property without process of law, di
verts vested rights and denies tc
plaintiff equal protection under the
law. Judge Bishop sustained the de-
murrer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-02
Sale of Liquor.

Washington Special New York Times: A decision of Justice Brewer has been raked up which may enable druggists to sell some kinds of liquor in communities under the control of the federal government where such practices are supposed to be prohibited The District of Columbia Pharmaceu- tical Association has been trying to find out how it can prevent the sale of certain kinds of malt extracts, and has been enlisting the aid of the dis trict government. As a result of the investigation of the legal aspect of the question it has been found that the act of congress regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors contains no defi- hilton of intoxicating liquors. An opinion given by the district attorney cites an old decision of Justice Brewer, holding that the question whether any particular compound is within or with out ths law is question of fact.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-02
|UR MILLION TOR A YACHT
Ke Fortunes Sunk In Buildihs sump-
 tuous Pleasure Craft.


 tuous Pleasure Craft.
 The new steam yacht Victoria and
 bert, which has been built for the
 een at Tenby, will be on completion
 handsomest and fastest yacht any
 1tish sovereign has possessed. It will
 nk only second to the emperor of
 ssia's wonderful yacht, the Polar
 &r, which is said to have cost close
 Ion f1, 1,O0O,0oO. Nothing more lavish
 elaborate than the fitting and deco
 Hon of the Polar Star could easily be 0n gined. Money has been drilled into 0ek frame in hundredweights. The ecorations of the dining saloon, which VIII seat 150 guests, cost approximately HOO ,000. Exquisite paintings by some l{E the most celebrated artists adorn {e saloons and cabins and all the Woodwork is elaborately carved. There X fine library and music-room Hoard and beautiful white marble z6untain, while some of the ornaments }|fe of the rarest. The Standart, the
 Ar's smaller steam-yacht of 4,3O0
 ms, is much more frequently used liam the Polar Star. She costs slight IT over $2,600, ,000. This is only about E&lf the price of the Polar Star, but 3Ae Standart is one of the most sump- nous yachts af1oat. There is accom- Modation aboard for crew of 300, {8enty officers and eighty passengers. Where are three magnificent suites of Gpartments devoted to the use of the Emperor, empress and dowager em- &fess, a fine library. b1lliard-room Ind music saloon. The dining saloon 8 paneled in tulipwood; the door Handles, finger plates and the lamp Fittings are of heavily carved solid s1l- Yer. There is a fine marble bathroom, With heavy silver fittings, and the walls Ind doors of the principal cabin are Xlaborately inlaid with ivorys and mother of-pearl So many improve 5nents and additions have been made p, her appointments since she was rst completed that she is now worth Probably half as much again as she briginally cost. The German emperor's Famous steam yacht, the Hohenzollern. of nearly 4,000 tons, was, considering lher beauty and purpose, compara- lively inexpensive vessel, costing con- ssiderably less than S1,000,000. She has very beautiful interior and splen- did accommodation for crew and pas |sengers alike, and is considered one of the fastest, smoothest-going yachts a1oat.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-02
TO STOP BLEEDING,
Electricity Now Declared to Be the
 Best Relief.

The arresting of bleeding in surgical operations has always been one of the difficulties in certain cases. and the electric current has been used before this with view to bringing about that condition of heat which is necessary in order to cause the blood to elot and so act as block to the mouth of bleeding vessels, arresting hemerrhage. This, indeed, has resulted in the utilization of the electric cautery, as it is called in certain operations, the platinum wire at red or almost white heat even sup planting the knife, because 1t burns through the tissues and at the same time prevents the wound bleeding to any great extent This effect of heat was, indeed, known to our ancestors. who used red hot irons or boiling pitch, to scar the surface of the flesh after their operations, thus causing an im> mense amount Of suffering to the pa- tient, before the days of chloroform A new adaptation of this use of elec- tricity, for the purpose of stopping bleeding has been devised by inclosing platinum wire III a par or forceps Of other instrument, the wire being insu- lated in bed of burnt pipe clay, and as soon as the bleeding vessel is seiz- ed by the forceps and compressed in the ordinary way, an electric current is turned on, whose effect is so great that the tissues and the walls of the blood vessels are all agglutinated, so that the blood is no longer able to pass.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-02
MANY WEEDS GOOD TO EAT.
Certain Kinds Are often Used for Food
 by Families.

Go out on any farm and see the farm CT hoeing away at the weeds that threaten to choke his crop. You may hear him say things that wouldn't sound nice about the weeds. The dan delion isn't the only weed eaten by people who know what's good to eat. Take wild chieory. the plague of the salads served, piquant, tender and wholesome. Charloek or wild mustard is another bane of the farmer He doesn't know that as a pot herb it can give soup delightful flavor The .dock-weeds-how annoying the whole family are! Yet the broad leaf vari- ety and the curly leaf are used all There's pokeweed, commonest of all. In France. it is cultivated. It takes it's place. Sorrel, fetticus and chevril are looked on as a fiavoring for soup. Every ybody in American hates a net tie and can't see what use it is. h Scotland Poland and Germany tender young nettle leaves are used as greens. 1AO oCi LuohS bOl1 tQC0 WiIi OJilGI vegetables to give them piquant f1a- vor Purslane is another weed that can be treated in the same way. Most people think milkweed poisonous. It is medicinal vegeta ble, with a de- lightful flavor all it's own. The young leaves, when they are in just the right condition. are a cross between spinach and asparagus. and in salad are de- licious. Sorrel, fetticus and chevril are looked on as field pests by ninety nine out of every hundred farmers. The hundredth one picks the choicest leaves from these weeds and sends them to market, where they find a ready sale for salads to be eaten with game and for 1avoring herbs-for herbs they are, and not weeds.-.New York World.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-02
LITTLE KNOWN iNpusTax.
oyster and Clam shells no Not Go -
 Waste,

singular and but little known in- dustry is carried on in this city in the sale of oyster and clam shells, says the New York Tribune. The q, lers in this commodity pursue their calling in so unostentatious way that it attracts no attention. From the eat ing houses where oysters and clans are consumed the year round the shells are collected by persons who either carry on that business for then .lves or are in the employ of the wholesale dealers. It seems incredible how large an area of ground can be covered many feet deep with the conglomeration of shell and foreign matter that is un- avoidably collected with it, and appar- entity amalgamates without destroying the characteristics of the harder ma terial. Seeing number of carts loaded with shells moving toward the same point would induce the supposi- ton that more reclaimed land was being filled in with material that would exclude the possibility of such land ever being used as market garden;
 or it might be taken for granted that another dump heap was allowed in some of the still unoccupied upper west side lots. But if curiosity should lead to investigation it would be found that the carts were bound for a big yard at Fifty-fourth street and the North river, where they deposited their loads. Every autumn the yard is so filled up that $ considerable hill of shells is formed. This being excavated from the bottom as loads are again carried away leaves the mass with the appear ance of having been geologically formed, and offers a curious sight to the uninitiated. How the shells are used is one of the most astonishing things to those ignorant of the value of the material for anything except filling in streets and making beach drives, such as that one famous in the history of Savannah. But this shell suffers curious change. It is sold to the gas-works and is used as purifier.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-02
The Commerce of tl1e Philippines.


 Products take care of themselves Climate and soil and mild pressure of commercial exchanges have deter mined that the Philippines should con- tribute to the worlds trade few lead ing commodities. The most important is hemp, natural monopoly; for though many species of this plant are found in the tropics, none produces the same or as good fiber as is obtained in the Philippines. More than that, at tempts to raise this particular variety elsewhere have failed. The value of the exports of hemp in 1897 was $8,500,- 000 and nearly equal value of sugar was also exported (s7.000,00O), these two commodities making nearly "A per cent of the value of the total exports. If three other items be taken from the export tables-copra (s2,6S7, ,978), to- bacco in leaf ($1,323,445) and cigars (SS05, ,000)-about 97 per cent of the en- tire export value is accounted for, and every leading article entering into the export ent--Harper's Maga- tine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-02
Had an Unpleasant Experience.

Henry Fredenburgh, while fishing at Catskill recently, had rather unpleas- ant experience. A monster sturgeon caught It's head in the meshes of a net handled by Fredenburgh, and while he was striving to fasten a rope about his gills, the boat lurched and the fisherman tumbled into the net. After flourdering there some .ime with the sturgeon, Fredenburgh succeeded in grasping a rowlock, but was unable to free himself from the net. The big fish, still entangled, made dash for liberty and for ten minutes dragged net, boat and fisherman about the river. Then Jacomb Conine, partner of F'redenburgh, came in boat, cut the net, released the sturgeon and as- sisted Fredenburgh into the boat
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-02
pass.
GIRL WHO HAS A TAME DUCK
Odd Pet of Young Woman Who Lives
 at Lake Bluff and Goes in Surf.

Odd Pet of & Young Woman Who Lives
 at Lake Bluff and Goes in Surf.
 @aen the nelenbors first observed Miss Stella TunnisoH in the rolling waves of Lake Michigan on the sandy beach at Lake Bluff they thought lit- tie of the occurrence. Even when close observers noticed a duck swimming around in close proximity to the young woman it was looked upon as coin cidence. But when on other occasions it was observed that the young woman and the duck took the water together, left at the same time and walked bathhouse, then the watchers knew they had something to talk about. Miss Tunnison is perhaps the first society girl to make a pet of a duck and go bathing in company with her quaeking friend. Other girls have taken in" their pet dogs on occasion, but duck for a swimming companion is certain ly an innovation. The fowl makes no attempt to swim far from it's mis- tress when they take their daily trip. It accompanies her solemnly across the sand to the waters edge and when she wades in with little screams over tle chilliness of the water the duck boldly breasts the waves and paddles around delightedly. While Miss Tun- nison is splashing in the shallow wa ter the duck remains near until she has finished her "dip" and then con- tentedly accompanies her to shore
 Typhoid PreventabIe.
 Medical men now regard typhoid fe- yer as a disease so preventable that, as one of them declares, for every case of typhoid fever somebody ought to be
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-02
Among the MalayaIis.

The Malayalis, caste of Madras, have most curious custom. A man having very young sons takes to him. self new wives, which he calls his sons wives, the children of the mar riage being called the sons children. This particular relation continues from one generation to another.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-02
x6ld of z noyiIi f;szs|

! writer in London Telegraph tells the following story about the king oi Spain as throwing light on that royal lads life: aOne day, during his history lesson, the king asked his professor to tell him how Spain came to lose Chile, Mexico and othsr Spanish American colonies. The story was narrated So thrillingly and artistically that the roya, boy listened spellbound and con- tinued after it had ended to sit ab- sorbed in meditation. At last thought having struck him, he looked up to his professor and inquired: What must l do in order to get back these countries for Spaln?' The first and most im- portant tning of all,' replied the eau tious and diplomatic pedagogue, is that your majesty should-should-- grow up to be man. When you are < man I'm!' muttered the lad, disen- chanted. 'wben I'm man it is not a history professors advice that I shall be asking. I shall have prime min ister to tell me them"
 Costly Fare for ostriches.
 There was happening at the Ari, zera ostrich farm recently which dis 1s.se4 s4e theory that the ostrich is satisfied with eating nails, barbed wire and the like. A man who had visited the farm the day before discovered that his gold watch was missing. Thinking that he might have lost it at the farm, he returned to look for it. When he arrived he enlisted the ser vices of youth and started in quest, without entertaining much hope of finding the watch. About the first thing noticed by the youth was an os- trich tossing something in the air. It was the watch, and would have been swallowed if it had been a glass-faeed watch. It happened that both sides were opened and lodged in the beak The next day the valuation of one of the birds was enhanced $50. It swal- lowed a diamond from the setting of a woman visitor, who inadvertently sought to console the bird by caress- ing it's forehead.
 Capital Punishment in Japan.
 Japan is considering the adoption of new method of capital punishment by the process of extracting air from the death cell, creating a vacuum and thus causing death. The death" or vacuum chamber. as it is to be known, is to be an air-tight cell built i'll or adjoining the prison. It is to be eight feet in height, ten feet wide and ten feet long. The four sides are to have each an air-tight window of quarters inch plate glass, so that the operators, prison and other off, cials may have an opportunity to wit ness the execution. The cell will be connected with an air pump, which will have a power of causing the ey- pulsion of the air in the cell in one minute and forty seconds, thus acting so quickly as not to allow the victim to become suffoeated or distressed in even the slightest degree, but, instead causing aln st instant death. In fact it was shown when the experiment was tried upon a large St. Bernard dog that the animal was dead in a minute and a half after the vacuum was com pleted.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-02

All property holders placing their