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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-28
II is a Fight to thu Death
Between Cronje and Kitche.
ner. Kitchener Refuses to
Agree to Armistice to
Bury the Dead.

London, Feb %. 4 q. Gen
Cronje is seemingly making his last
stand. He ia dying hard. hemmed
in by British infantry and with shells
from 60 guns falling into his camp.
On the third day of the fight the
Boer chief asked for an armistice to
bury bis dead Fight to q flush or
surrender unconditionaily" was Lord
Kitohener's reply Gep Cronje i'm
mediately sent back word that bis
request for truce had been misunder
stood and that his determination then
90 before was to fight to the death.
The battle went on This was the
situation of Gen CroDje Tuesday
evening as can be sketcbed in the
sosoty teiegrams that have emerged
from the semi silence of South AT.
rica.
Officially Lord Roberts wires that
he had scattered the advau com
msndoes of the reenforcements that
were striving TO reach Cronje 1t is
regarded ss eingular that Lord Rob
erts wiring Wednesday should not
mention The appeal for an armistice
on the previous day. and also tha,
the war Office should withhold good
news. If it has any
Without trying to reconcile even
the soanty materials at hand. it
seems plain that Gen COME is in q
bad. and even q desperate situation.
and that the British are pressing their
advantage
While the attack on Gen Oronje
proceeds there 10 Q race for conoen
tration between the Boers and the
British
The engagement with Gen Oron
je's 5000 to 5000 entrenched men
10 likely to become On incident 10 q
battle between the masses. The sep
srsted factions of the Boer power
are rapidly drawing together to at,
tack Lord Roberts.
Will Gen Cronje be able to hold
out until the Boer masses appear,
or II he does. will they be able to
soocor him ? The British are facing
the Boers on ground where the
arms. tactics and training of the
British are expected to give them the
advantage
Gen Butler, according to dispatch
from Cbieveley dated Wednesday,
fnds the Beers in positions north OF
the Tugels largely REINFORCED This
seems strange. y
The war Office for the fret time
hes given ont an official com pilation
Of the British losses The total is
IL .208 to Feb II. This does not
include, therefore. Lord Roberts
recent losses, nor the Wiltshires
prisoners
The press association learns that
the British losses at Koodoosrand
we're TOO
Three thousand fresh troops will
embark for South Africa today
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-28

still continues since early this moruioe
our otloers hope to dislodge the British
from their position. Last night body
OF British troops tried to cross the
river. but they we're beaten back with
heavy loss. Our loss was light Our
positions are being BON barded from
Ladysmi'h at point where the Kip
river passes through the hills Our
Long Tom is replying with good effect.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-28
NO MORE MULE SOUP

Kimberley, Feb ~ Lord Meth ueo
arrived here Tuesday He will act as
administrator of the Kimberley district,
extending soutbward to the Orange
river. Col Kekewich will remain 10
command of the local forces The
issue of siege soup ceases today.
There are sd Boer prisoners here.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-28
TOWN BEING BOMBARDED.

London. Feb % 2-The Morning
Posts second edition publishes q
dispatch from Ladysmith dated Feb
lSsb, which Gays that tho bombardmeut
continues With unusual persisteocy and
activity from Bulwsos and Blaau v bauk,
but is doing small damage.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-28
BULLER'S MOVEMENT.

Colenso, Natal. Wednesday. Feb 81.
(via Chieveiey. Feb 22.-Tbe Bri,i.b
have crossed the Tugela over pontoou
nortbwsrd Of Hlaugwana and new
o,cupy Fort Wylie.
While the osvsl brigade was bou-
harding Grobie-skloof the Beers biz
Creusot replying. yesterday. after the
occupation of Coleuso. snall party of
Thorneycro't's Horse crossed tho river
but wer, driven back by fro from the
trenches
The Beers guns are still sheiiing the
relieving force from the hills sou'h of
Ladysmith. but the impression is
spreading that they are merely cover
ing the retreat of the entire Boer fo:ce
Gen Buffers casualties Tuesday,
Feb 2Oth, and Wednesday, Feb Dist,
were Killed. Capt Nrealock and Lieuts
Keith Falcooer and Parry. of ihe
Somersethire Light Iufantry and nine
men. Wounded. officers and 81
men. Missing. $ men.
Chlevaley, Thursday, Feb % The
main body of the Beers has fed, evi
IDENTIFY With the object Of stemmiog the
advance of Lord Roberts
WHITE TRIES TO AID RELIEF
FORCES.
Hoofd L,sger, Ladysmitb, Wedues.
day. Feb 2l. There Was heavy fight.
ing oil MoudsY aod Tuesday and it
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-28
BRITISH KILLED LAST SUN
DAY.

London. Feb 23.-The official report
gives 146 men killed at Paardeberp
DRIFT Sunday. Feb 18. including 63
Highlaoders and 18 Canadians.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-28

London, Feb % -An additional list
OF casualties sustained by the British
troops during the retreat from Rens
burg Feb ID shows that IA men were
killed and that 1853 members of Wilt.
shire and Worcestershire regiments are
missing, the latter fact con uirmiug the
Boer reports that . number Of prison ers
had been captured by them.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-28
SUMTER. s. c.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 28 1900

London. Feb %, All p The
war Office has received from Lord
Roberts the following message. which
was delayed in ansmission, dated
Psardeburg. Wednesday. Feb 2l {:
Yesterday afternoon l was satisfied
by q careful reconnaissance in force
OF the enemy's position that ! could
not assault it without very heavy
loss, which was most anxious to
avoid Accordingly l decided to
lombard him with artillery and to
turn my attention to the enemy's
reenforcements The result was most
satisfactory The Beers wereidriven
off in all directions. losing q good
many killed and wounded and about
30 prisoners, who say they arrived
from Ladysmith two days ago by
railroad. They also say it was our
artillery fire which caused them to
abandon the kopje they were occu
pying Our loss was two officers,
Campbell of the Ninth Lancers, and
Lieut. Houston of the artillery and
four men. all slightly wounded
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-28

Paardeberg, Wednesday, Feb 2l,
6 2Op m-A Boer kopje has heen
capture with so prisoners
Gen Cronje's position is unchaug.
ed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-02-28

London, Feb %. S37 p. ma
special dispatch from Paardeberg,
dated Wednesday. Feb %, says !:
"Commandant Botha has been at
tempting to relieve Gen Cronie.
There has been severe fighting. Gen
Botbs's force is scattered with heavy
losses "
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The Coconino sun., 1900-09-22
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Land Onice at Prescott, Ariz., August 2, lsOO.
 Notice is hereby given that the following rlmed settler has filed notice Of his intention ,n make final proof in support of his claim. and thai said proof will be made before the Clerk of the Probate Court, at Flagstaff, Arizona, on September l7. 1900. viz, Gilbert J. Schultz Of Flagstaff. Arizona, for the x ls of NV la, SEE li of NV |. and NE ia of SW h, section 10. T. sl N. R. F., He names the following Wit nesseS to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz, Charles Moers Thomas r. McMillon. Henry C. Lockett, Frank A. Rodriguez. all of Flagstaff, Arizona.
 FREDERICK A. TRITLE Jr., Register.
 First publication August n, 1900.
The Coconino sun., 1900-09-22
Lessor's Notice.

To Att WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
 Notice is hereby given that the Grahd Canyon mine, situated in Pine Spring mining district, Coconino county. Arizona. which Is under lease to parties working the same, and that neither the mine nor the owners thereof will be re- sponsible for any labor or debts contracted nor injuries sustained by any lesSeeS or their employees in working said property and that no lessee or employe is the a"ent of the owners for any purpose and that all operatives engage in such service at their own risk. and that no debt. or claim Of debt. is' valid against sa'd( mining claim or it~ owner. Flagstaff November ?, 1899.
 w. E. RIDENOUR
 MARGARETH RIDENOUR.
The Coconino sun., 1900-09-22
NOTICE TO VOTERS.

Notice is hereby given. that at a regular meeting of the board of supervisors of Coc '- nino county. Arizona, held at their office on the snd day of April l9Oo, it was ordered that re-registration of all the voters of Coconno county, Arizona be made Register closes October r. 1900.
 Act No. B. twentieth legislative aS' emhly;
 Sec. I. No recorder, justice of the peace or other officer authorized to register electors in any of the counties of the territory of Arizona. shall register or take the affidavit for the pur- pose of re-regStrItion of any eector within this territory, unless such person desiring to be registered shall produce and exhibit to the registering officer receipt showing that he has paid poll tax for the year in which he s registering.
 Sec. 2 ''rhiS act shall not apply to any per son who is by law exempt from the payment of a poll tax But in this event the person deSir- ing to register must make anidavit to the facts that entitle him under the law to an exemption from the payment of n poll tax.
 Sec 3 Any of the registering officers enum- erated in section of this act. or any that may hereafter be qualified to register electors, who enters the name of any person upon the great register of the county in which he is an officer without requiring the person seeking to be registered to exhibit poll tax receipt for the year in which he is being registered, or taking the affidavit of such person showing he is ex- empt from the payment of poll tax, shall be guilty of a msdemeanor and subject to fine, upon conviction therefor of not more than one hundred (siOO) dollars or Imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days or by both such fine and Imprisonment" T. F.. PULLIAM Clerk of the Board Of Supervisors of Coconino
 County, Arizona Territory.
 First publication April 2s 1900
The Coconino sun., 1900-09-22
ASSiCNEE'S NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed assignee of the estate of J. P. Arnolds. All creditors should present their claims for allowance to the undersigned at the Arizona Central Bank. in the town of Flagstaff, County of Coconino Arizona Terri tory, within four months after the publication of this notice.
 Dated FlagStar, Arizona this 10th day of July. A. D. 1900.
 T. F.. POLLOCK. Assignee of the estate of J. P. ARNoLDS.
The Coconino sun., 1900-09-22
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Rev. Geo. Logic, B. D., pastor Services: Sunday school and Bible Class. 10 a. m.: morn- ing service, II a. m.: Young Peoples meeting. 6:I5 D. m. evening service, 7:30 p. m. prayer meeting, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m You are cor dially invited. Strangers in town are asked to come and make themlSeves known.
The Coconino sun., 1900-09-22
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH

Rev. ". w. Brunk. pastor. Sabbath services: Sunday school. 10 n. m: preaching service, II a. m: class meeting. l2:D m: Junior League 3 D. m: Epworth League. 6:30 D. m: evening service, 7:8 p.m.; weekly prayer meeting, Wednesday, a:30p m. Every one is cordially welcome.
The Coconino sun., 1900-09-22
CHURCHES.
CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY.

Rev. r. billy, rector. On Sundays Low mass at o'clock a. m; high mass at lO:3O a. m. Sunday school at l:D o'clock n m Rosary and benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament at D. III. On week days. mass at s:l5 n. m. All cordially invited.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-07-10
snea fer. Seaalelsneaa.

Chicago Inter Ocean: Mrs. Sarah L. Ungerman. who has filed suit against the Hamburg Steam ship c0mpany for damages for sea sickness. is from Missouri She says she paid for comfortable trip on the steamship across the ocean, but she didn't get it. She estimates the dam age to her health, comfort and dignity at $5,000 Mrs. Ungerman is specific in her charges. She says she wal guaranteed four good meals a day aboard the steamer going to Europe, but on account of the peculiar antics of the ship in trying to find the bot tom with her nose and stand on her stern, she was unable to eat, and the display of fare was tantalizing. Insult was added to injury. she says, when, in the midst of her suffering, the cap tain prescribed salt pork as a remedy. Steamship managers are said 10 be worrying over the suit, as an adverse decision would establish very dan gero1s= precedent, and would probably result in driving shem out of business
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-07-10
Mlllet's "Angclus."

There are few pictures which have go stirred the heart of humanity as MiIlet's "Angelus. The girl who sup piled the model for the woman's figure was Adele Marier who constantly re- appears in the famous French artist pictures. It is stated that she retained no resemblance of the man who posed with her. He was a mere "waif and stray who probably little suspected that his assumed attitude of prayer was to be thus immortalized.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-07-10
An Example of Queer Mil,farta,,.

Spain is giving the world just now a euriously complete example of queer miIitarism. She has 29.000 army of deers, which was about four times too many. even when she still held Cuba and the Philippines Now, when she has to cut her army down the figure is outrageous. But General Polavieia will not hear of reducing it. and will not even listen to the proposal to re duce down the number of cadets. and so diminish the corps of officers in fa- lure. The plain fact is that the mili- tary gentlemen consider that they have right to "eat the budget" as the Spanish phrase has it. and to provide for their sons in the service. So an establishment equal to Frances is kept up.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-07-10
PLAGUE IN RUSSIA
Gives Rise to Some Curious Pre- aration.

Gives Rise 10 Some Curious Ere IT ationa
 Against It's Spread.
 saw the other day q curious device attached to the mooring rope or cable of a steamer which was leading at this port. writes Consul Heenan from Odessa. Russia The cable was run through piece Of iron pipe about foot in length, and welded on the end vas dange or funnel. which looked like =the end Of a trumpet, with the wide end facing the vessel. =The iron pipe was stuffed with oakum to pre- 4entit from slipping. and also Co pre-. vent rat5 from passing through it. This neYe1. construction was quite close to the ship. On inquiring what purpose this device served, I was in- formed that the Russian authorities furnished these appliances and obliged all ships to use them whenever they came from port infected with the plague. in order to prevent the rats on the ship from coming ashore. It is generally conceded that the plague has ae9en carried and spread by rats which have left ships coming from in fected ports. It Is known that rats make use of the cable to come on shore, and this iron pipe with it's funnel shaped arrangement, was employed to prevent such visits if possible. These devices are attached to each cable by which the ship is moored Tn addition to this pfeeaution, the master Of tbe ship is obliged to take down his load ing stages every night and erect them again the following morning, in Ufder to prevent the rats from coming on shore during the night. I do not know whether this device is known to our sanitary authorities. aad send this description of 1t in the hope that 1t nay be of service,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-07-10
POMPADOUR'S RING.
It Was Lost Over B Century and a Haii
 Ago.


 4 ring containing an engraved stone was recently offered for sale to the medal department of the National Library, and on close scrutiny says the London Post, the curator recogniz- ed the gem as the famous lost ''Tri- um oh of Fontenoy," left by testament of Mme. de Pompadour to the medal department The ring had disappeared on the marqufse's death and was sup posed to have been lost forever, when chance brought it to the very spot where 1t would have been had Mime de Pompadour's will been carried out. T'he Triumph of Fontenoy'' is one of the first works the engrayer Jacques Quay executed for Mime. ee Pom padour. The favorite possessed con- siderable skill in painting and engrav- ing on precious stones. She chosa Jacques Quay for master, took him to Versailles, and installed him in hes- apartments, where he gave her 1essors and also executed a series of engrav- ipgs representing the principal events of the reign of Louis KY. There is little chance of discovering through what hands the Triumph of Fonte- noy' has passed since it disappeared 150 years ago. It has just come from Poland and precise information can not. 1t seems. be obtained.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-07-10
 COLL TO ORDER.
scrne Ways ot Producing Artificial Low
 Temperatures.

Temperatures.
 h the line of refrigeration on the rail, the newest and cleverest inyen- ton is a car that by the motion of it's own wheels. congresses ammonia gas to liquid, which, in expanding again through pipes, produces the cold re- quired to preserve the perishabia prod uets transported in the vehicle. What the newly discovered liquid air may accomplish in the branch of enterprise here discussed, no man can say, though astonishing things are predict ed for it, but already cold in this in- sensefy concentrated form is on the market and may be bought by the gall lon. Very possibly. in the near future carts may go from door to door in cities with cans of eold-i. e., liquid air put up in suitable ttas--=depositing full receptacles each morning for the days supply, and taking away the "empties.o 4 little of the stuff in the family refrigerator will keep the pro- visions sweet, while what remains may be utilized for cooling the air of the house. a spoonful being deposited here and there in a sancer. An inventor has recently devised a scheme for sprink- ling q town with the help of balloons, which carry Up into the air long hose pipes connected with fre-plHgs on the ground. This is for the purpose of ehgendering eoolness; and the same object is sought. by another genius, who proposes to erect in various parts ,34 the city very tall skeleton towers. to the tops of which large bombs flied with carbonie acid. will be run up for explosion by aD electric spark. or course, the car5onic acid expanding in the form of Fapor, will chill the surrounding atmosphere. thus giving re1lef to the heat=oppressed community below. An idea that is even nov used in many factories to cool the air in tne buildings is to throw a spray of cold water into 2 roo. until the air.is suDersaturated. ard then to force the air thus cooled through the outer rooDls.-Boston Transcript.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-07-10
riousEToP scuLPr,1RE.
Ruskin said some Severe Things About
 U-His DenunciatIon.


 It-His DenuneiatIon.
 The extensive alterations which are proceeding at the Atheneum club, and which include the addition of q story to it's height, have been thought in more than one quarter to be likely to sroii the effect of the beautiful frieze, Ger the Greek, that runs sae top of the building as orig ina. designed. says the London News. The.e is, however. some misapprehen- sion as to whether this is the club dec eration which has won the singular lame of being denounced by MT. Rus kin. for, in point of fact, it was not the Atheneuni at the corner of Pail Mall and Waterloo place that the great art critic had in mind. but a service" club further along Pail Mall. The de- nunciation was made in the second of Mir. Ruskin's lectures on architecture, delivered in Edinburgh as long as the November of 1853. He was condemn ing as grieyous waste of money the constant habit of putting careful sculp- ture at the tops of the houses. and he T ent on to say: "A temple of luxury has just been built in London for the Army and Navy club. It cost 940,00O, exclusive of purchase of ground. It has upon 1t an enormous quantity of sculpture, representing the gentlemen of the navy as little boys riding upon dolphins, and the gentlemen of the army-I couldn't see as what. nor can anybody. for all this sculpture is put Up at the top of the house, where the gutter -hould be- under the eornlee. E know that this was a Greek way of doing things l can't help it; that does not make it wise one. Greeks might be willing to pay for what they eouldn [ see. but scote hmen and EnglisRmen sh W1dn L.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-07-10
ASoyeI Wager.

Reading (Penn.) Cor Chicago Inter Ocean: Solomon Watson, of this city, as the result of bet, has had a silver quarter in his mouth, night and day, since September f. He found the money that day, and a banser that lie could not keep it for year led to this novel wager. The bet is for $10 "It was agreed that I must eat, sleep and drink with that quarter in my mouth for F months. Watson says. At first it was hardship, but with the course of time it became easier, and today I don't mind it much Of course, I'll win. Here's the quarter He showed the piece Of silver, which he had in his left cheek. resting againft set of nolafs as sound as ivory.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-07-10
Drawbacks of Life in Kimberley

Only those who are willing to uGs dergo great hardships in pursuit of wealth should think of going to Kim berley, where Cecil Rhodes is now shut up with the little English force. The town is surrounded by level. treeless country. nothing higher than an ant bill appearing above the horizon in my direction. Fer eight months out of the year there is often no rain at all, and the thermometer often stands for days at 100 degrees in the shade. To add to the diseomfor.s Of the resi- dents, fierce. choking storms of dust frequently sweep over the town.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-07-10
cohto de Dioa,s Fra s.forn,stf.,n


 Inc way to make 2 useful citizen ont d an idler is to give him q real inta~s est in If. Colnte de Dion, the promot- er of tAe automobile in France. where the new vehicle ffstattainea peaa1Iar- itys iss according 10 the Bfevclfng World. a striking illustration of this truth be comte was long the 6Tpfcal white carnatien Of the Paris affstoe- raey, which means that he was q ne5er-do-well. The merestZ Zaeeiden, sufticed to put him on the right track. One day he bought q miniature Ioeo- motive for the little son of one of his friends, and carried the toy to the child. But though they lighted the alcohol lamp and got up steam in the tiny boiler. for some reason the thing would not work. Comte de Dion is of stubborn disposition. He persisted, tried this cog and that, finally taking off his coat to work more at ease. He puzzled the whole afternoon on the engine with no success. Then he car ried it home and spent the night sqnat- ting on the floor amidst an assortment o1 2Sl 1a u1If C49, HaIulueI6 dHa Ht9S lie had bought on the way. The loeomo- tive was taken completely apart and readjusted several times. At last, to- ward daybreak Inc young count had the satisfaction of seeing the toy travel mefr'ly around the room, Having thus discovered within him a taste and ar aptitude fer meehan2c 2cs, Comte de Dior did not return to his idling, but studied until he became an engineer. It was st this period that he showed remarks able business perspicacity in investing all his capital in the automobile indus try. At a time when everybody was deridiRg the first clumsy machines. that spurted and shied and then re- fused to budge for hours. he under stood the possibilities of the motor car and resol0tely cast his lot with it's fortune. It is generally acknowledged tha. no man in France has done so mu=h to further the cause of the new loo, motion.