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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24
WAS HIS OWN JA1LER.
DIR. Roup Returns 10 the Scene of
His Imprisonment.

sr JOSEPH. No., Sept 23.-Dr. Albert
Roupe, of Bakersfield, Cal, once resident
of Missouri. has come back to visit OLD
scenes and look at the place where ne
served jail sentence Of six months, while
he was his own iailer He Is now one OF
the wealthy men of California, and has
retired from active practice. When he
left Missouri forty-sx years ago he was
farmland
Roup is a Kentuekian who came to Mis-
souri, early in the '5es to engage in tbs
general merchandise business with his
brother in Atchison County. The brother
yas also engaged in the unlawful sale of
whisky, and in a short time warrants were
issued for both. ROup was arrested, and
his brother ran away. The arrest and trial
resulted in a sentence Of six months in
Jail for Roup.
The jail was at Linden, and was log
structure without a iailer. The sheriff
lived at Oregon, now the county seat OF
Holt County. Atchison County was then
q part of the territory known as Holt
County. The sheriff took RouD to tho
Linden Jail. and told him he must remain
there six months. They compromised ON
Roup sleeping in the Jail every night dur
ing that period. Roup carried the Key 10
the Jail himself. and let himself out ana
in. He was his own jailer, and during
ers in the vicinity.
Az night the prisoner read medical books
he had borrowed from old DR.. Farris, the
only physician In that part OF the country.
When he had served his. jail sentence out
he went to work for DR.. Farris N the
farm and continued his study of the medi-
cal works. Three years later he started
TO California overland, and on the way
was called upon to treat the sick travelling
with him. there being no regular physi-
clan with the wagon train. By the time
they ref ched California no was Doctor
Roup. and was called upon so frequently
to attend the sick that he had no time to
engage in mining or any other business.
Roup was practically forced into the
practice OF medicine. in which he had no
intention of engaging when he LETT M s
souri,. In time he built up large pfae
tice. and accumulated a fortune he
never attended college in his life ana
all he knew about medicine, when he be-
gan 10 practice. was the knowledge he
mad gained from reading the medical
works of DIR. Farris. His knowledge was
pained principally in actual practice.
The old log Jail where Roup was his
own taller has long since been torn
down but the California physician viii
visit the spot on which it stoed. Many
Of the old settlers remember the place.
and the incident in which Roup made his
start as a physician. Roup's Brother is
dead, but his children and grandchildren
still live in Atchison County, numerous
progeny.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24
TbeTrusts and the STRIFE.

Everybody knows that the Coal Trust
is vastly interested in the reelection of
Mr.. Mckinley. The popular belief is that
it has shown its desire to secure four
more years of trust domination at Wash
ing. by contribution OF half a million
dollars to the Hanna corruption fund.
Yet it has not been willing to subordinate
it's greed and lust of oppression TO the
good of its party by doing justin to its
Industrial slaves in the anthracite region.
On the contrary, it has caused serious If
not fatal harm to the cause it upholds,
in giving a series of object lessons Of
trust rapacity and cruelty in the short
history of the current strike.
It is reported. upon the authority of dis
interested observers, and upon that of a
majority of the business men of Shenan-
doah, Pennsylvania, that the shooting OF
the miners by the sheriff of Schuylkill
County and his deputies on Friday was N
pursuance of 4 deliberate scheme on the
part of the trust to create a condition
which would seem to Justify call for
troops. 1t is noticeable that not soli-
tary man in the posse was injured, and.
locally. it is claimed that not shot was
fred by the miners. The slaughter was
Lattimer over again on a small scale.
The murder of one IL not two. and the
wounding of seven or more miners has
been made to serve its purpose. The mi
lftia have been called out. and it is pos
sible that, wherever they are in control.
the trust may be able to resume opera
tions with imported labor, if there be any
available We do not fancy that many of
the old men will return to work; but that
is a matter which wilr develop itself
within a day or two. Whatever may be
the effects of military occupation upon
the prospects of the strike, there can be
no doubt concerning the political conse-
quences of the appeal TO bayonets by the
Coal Trust.
If the workingmen of this country can
not attempt to-wrest simple justice from
grinding and thieving trusts without the
certainty of being starved into submis-
sion under the guns of a soldiery main
tanned and used solely in the interests of
the trusts. it is time that they knew it,
and acted on the knowledge. They have
their chance They can, If they will, give
a death blow to the trusts at the polls in
November. They had the same oppor-
tunity in 1886, but were cajoled or bullied
out of taking advantage of it. There was
more excuse four years ago than there
now is. Then the farmers and laborers
Of United States hardly had begun to
realize what the trusts were doing to
them. Now they know. The fault will
be theirs If the trusts again capture the
Government and secure the new lease of
power which will be sufficient to fix their
system Of economic slavery upon the
Americsr masses for the next generation,
or until the next armed revolution.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24

The Maryland Board of Health has been
investigating the condition of cattle
brought into the State for slaughter, and
the discoveries which it has made are rot
altogether pleasant. 1t has been found
that diseased animals have been purchased
by dealers who make specially OF cheap
meat, and the board intends to seize and
destroy. as far as possible, such cattle, and
thereby make traffic in them extremely IN
profitable.
This is emphatically move in the right
direction. There is no business in which
honesty is more imperatiyely needed than
the butchers. Although the Intelligent
housewife knows how to select good meat,
and cannot easily be cheated, at least half
the maids and housekeepers to whom this
work is entrusted are not too intelligent
to be imposed upon. 1t behooves the State,
therefore, to step in and protect the in
terests of the people
One of the strongest arguments which
yegetarians advance against the use oil
meat is that this very practice OF selling
diseased meat is deplorably common They
and caused, and that people who adhere to
vegetarian diet viii be relieved from the
apprehension of one great evil at least.
This probably accounts for the superior
health which some persons who eschew
meat obviously enjoy.
1t has been claimed that excessive meat
eating is in some measure responsible for
cancer, rheumatism, and one or two other
diseases due more or less to an impure
condition of the blood. 1t is certain that
many people eat more meat than they
ought. and that the European peasant,
with his diet of black bread and yegeta-
bles, owes some of his health to the fact
that he eats comparatively little flesh
food. On the other hand, people who eat
meat once day at least. instead of once
or twice week, are undoubtedly stronger
and healthier than the average vegetarian.
Like most other habits. meat eating seems
to be thing which must be done in mod
Grafton.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24
The Claim of Germany.



In considering any proposition which Germany
may make it is to be remembered, OF course
that the German nation has peculiarly strong
reasons for demanding stern measures of reeress
It's Ambassador was killed, and in his person Ger
many was affrOnted. Considering that every
civilized power deems itself entitled to extra ter
rtorinl Jurisdiction il. all legal eases affecting
its own citizens in China. 1t is bat natural that
Germany should propose to have 4 voice in the
trial of those responsible for the killing OF its
Minister Tic difficulties which confront it in
carrying out this plan, however, are OF a pTac-
teal character. II the German note means any
thing, it means that punishment must be visited
not upon the tools Of the leaders, but upon those
who held the highest authority and the largest
measure Of responsibility in the preparation OF
the crimes. II Germany insists that Priaee Tuan
and General Yung Lu be surrendered and the
Chinese Government rcfuses, how shall they be
taken except by war; II Germany proposes to
go still further, and demand the person OF the
Empress Dowager herself who in all probability
is responsible for the encouragement OF the Box
er murtierers. a sweeping revolution, placing the
reform element in control, would afford the only
means OF taking her without war,
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24

helped to save his own pet regiment from
destruction. 1t is probable that when he
fiourished that revolver in their faces he
was somewhat excited. and wished to
prove how great a patriotism burned IN
his bosom. II was so great, apparently,
that it demanded a sacrifice, and his own
men, not being available for private rea-
sons, and no Spaniards being within reach,
he may have thought that smoked
Yankees" as he calls them. would do.
But there has been considerable growing
over that little incident. and the hero's
modest account of it, among the colored
voters OF several doubtful States, and if
something is not done about it rather soon
the Republican managers in those States
may be wishing that their candidate for
Vice President had been the despised
Woodruff himself.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24
THE REPUTATION.
HoIguin. Cuba, July 7, 1899.

Sergeant Presly Holiday. Troop Cavalry:
thought
he
recollection of the
he
coloed Infantry
exactly the
Tenth Cavalry under my the incident referred 10
belonged cOlOred nfantry)
As the members of your troop who with Will remember part Of
Juan Hill nearest the city think TINS was the most advanced position
aiterwrd
Until Lieut. Edward Tenth Cavalry Troop T.
Goodrich ard
several hit others being the of Troop Tenth
Cavalry there probably word
in
enys bullets
Tenth back The
Colonel Roosevelt
walking a revolver hand saying:
to
to
standing and said:
Il would have to shoot Rough Rider. either"
say anything of spoke
Colonel like
Then said NO sir you have no right to talk like that to my men
closed
Wounded
ordered Lieutenant
those the trenches left the hill about
Cavalry
respectfully. R. J FLEMING,
TenhC Caviar.
New May l99O.--
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24
ROOSEVELT AND THE COLORED TROOPS At SANTIAGO
Roosevelt's Charge of Cowardice.

ION hill Immediately had mixed force
Riders with Leutenans Good
colored infantry
without their
No eoored soldiers had
behaved they peculiarly dependent their
class OF whites;
It, With
own officers whereas
Riders experience showed
the fight by
their OF no
None of the white
helping
regiments This could not allow depicting line jump
which that
whatever to the
hurt and
word.
always
In a comico e doesi
ysakeesss the Span
another,
trouble
officers The coiored
Rough Riders: BY hso-
Magazine April. 9pp 4s5-4S61
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24
Combines and workers.


IFFOW INC NLctlEg LpElsIff.l
The very immensely Of the new Industrial
giants OF the times is calculated to undermine
political independence IN The United States It
is oyeraWing, paTllyzny. TO antagonists who are
only separate units in the macs Of many mil
lions Of poor man dependent. like themselves
upon their daily toll for bread In the older
days when mills and factories were controlled,
for the most part, By separate and independent
owners the wagc-camcr who was unfairly treated
in one place always felt that he might find work.
though often slSsreat personal inconvenience and
sacrifice. ia some other city or town. Now h.
faces gigantic combinations, with ramihcations
far and wide, which may easily deprive him OF
all opportunity to obtain employment in his own
field Of labor 1t is no light matter TO risk the
anger OF such masters by refusing 10 vote as
they please to direct th,se who are dependent
upon them for a chance to earn a living.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24
TELEPHoN1NG WITHOUT WIRES.
Exposition of the System of Sir
William Prsece

BRADFORD, England. Sept. IF one
of the many papers read at the British
Association for the Advancement of Science
here is 10 be mentioned as OF pre-eminent
practical Importance 1t is that of Sir VIII
liam Preece on wireless telephony. His
telephone system has passed the expert
mental stage and is now successfully OPP
Grated over a distance of eight miles,
which can be increased certainly TO ten on
twelve-probably much more. This dis
lance will suffice. however. to put all light
houses and lightships in Great Britala,
and, it is supposed, in the United States, in
communication with the mainland.
In February, 1894. while experimenting
in wireless telsgraphy with Mr.. Gavey.-
wires four miles in length were stretched
on both-sides of Loeb Ness, in the High
lands, at distance of one and one-thir.
miles apart, and telephone messages wers
readily transmitted; but disturbances
were caused when teIegraphing even by a
small current. even the ininitesimal cur
rent of a telephone, amounting only to the
thousandth part of a volt. This seemed to
interfere as much with teIephoning across
the loch as the most powerful current of
the Wheatstone automatic telegraph.
Marconis system Of using Hertzin,I
waves in 1897 drew off attention from this
older and simpler system.
Last year, however Prof. Preece, in ex-
perimentiug at the Menai Straits, found IL
advantageous to earth one of the wires in
a sand bank. Still better results followed
the immersion in the sea Of plates con-
nected with both ends OF the wire, which
greatly reduced the length of wire. and
showed that the process was not wholly
inductive, but that conduction played an
important part; and the length OF wire
necessary to speak across four miles was
reduced to 800 yards.
At the Skerries a wire $50 yards long
has been erected. and another one thres
and a half miles long on the island of As
gleasea. This line is in daily use. Later
a distance of nearly eight miles was Sc
lected off the north coast OF ireland. and
speech is easily transmitted.
The process requires no induction coil
and no scientific appliances except ten
simple dry cells, an ordinary transmitter
and receiver. Communication between
ships seems to be practical, by conducting
a copper wire over the topmasts and con-
Meeting the ends with plates immersed in
the sea- one at the bow, tine other at tho
stern. This would undoubtedly be effective
at a distance of many miles when the ships
were parallel How it would be when
they were at right angles to each other
is not yet known.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24
Died A. Borning.


Tic ref1sal OF Senator Caffery TO accept nomi-
nation for the Presidency from the national party
was a deathbow to that Organization Less
would have slrfiiced for the party had not an
Astounding supply of vitality, and, even if Mr.
Gallery had consented to remain al the head of
its ticket we doubt its ability to stand the hard
knocks OF a Presidential contest for six weeks
together 1t would, we fancy, have collapsed
in hopeless weakness before the polling day came
round Be that as it may. the action OF the
Louisiana Senator was fatal. The leaders Of the
party met at Young's Hotel yesterday afternoon
and abandoned the idea of having q Presidential
ticket. There was attempt TO save the pieces
hut it will not amount 10 anything in practical
way and might better be given up without fur
Their tinkering
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24
Coal VIII Head the List.

From the st. Paul Globe.)
The real questions OF interest in this camc.aign
are being CLOSED over 10y the Republican candi-
dates First Of these is the trust issue. Mr.
Bryan has the political sense, and shows it in his
letter. to enable him to distinguish the i'm
portance which the trust question wiz possess
before the campaign is closed Should the pre-
vailing coal strike continue it is not an extrava-
CANT belief that that issue will dwarf all Others
The voters will not stand for what the coal com
bination represents. 1t stands for the most
Objectionable expression of trust control.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24

General Fitzhugh Lee is uneasy over
the future OF Cuba. and with excellent
reason. II it had not been for the hid
eous object lesson of colonial carpet bag
Imperialism furnished by the course of
, the Administration in Porto Rico, the
evils and dangers that he fears would
not be possible. AS it is, with the denial
of constitutional rights to Porto Rico,
and Neelyism in Cuba. the Cubans are
not to be blamed for wishing TO be quit
Of US. But they may feel differently
after the Fourth Of next March.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24

Hanna has made his expected Pilgrim
age to the little front porch at Canton.
No outsider knows what the two great
talk about on the occasion. But it is safe
to guess that they both had views and
alarms to express on the subject of the
coal strike. the apparent loss to the Re-
publicans Of Indiana, Hanna's cerebrally
excited trust speech. and the threatening
disaster in New York. Perhaps Mr. Nc
Kinley induced his manager to spare
him the pain Of further devastating
stump efforts. We hope not. A gloom
would fall upon the campaign were its
funniest man to be pulled out of it.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24

(From the Boston TTaLscrpt)
II is not to be supposed that the Maine liquor
law l. to see its finish Immediately, for beirg
in the constitution il viii take time to secure
its repeal: but it is evident that the Republic
cans al Maine have 1T last attained TO the courage
of their convictions and that they are bound that
this impracticable law, which does not help toe
causs OF temperance hut leads only to corrupt
Juggling with the drink evil. and so makes OF
the law, and of the State whose name it bears,
a byword and rep:olcl rom one end Of the coun-
try to the other, shall be repealed.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24
The G. o. P,s Handicap.


tFr0m INC kaTI-I' NIV4 '50II'F
The Republicans are Handicapped by their re-
sponsibility for the trusts ana the growing en-
croacbmcnts Of aggregated capital against com
petition. Their friendship for expansion does not
help them as it would ii the party were not
committed 10 the Inconsistent policy of placing
an embargo foreign trade Mani voters IN
the marty have become wearied and disguised
with the influence which Is exerted upon the Ad.
ministration by politicians of the Hanna and
Plstt school.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24
The War Office.
Hc
Hrom Tie Philadelphia Reeord.l

From Tie FmladelpHIa Hecord]
While the chic Of the War Department is
in,lsacitated by illness and his Assistant Secre-
tary is spelbinding for Mckinley in Nebraska
Inc Lieutenant General Commanding the United
states Army is running the War ofics-whereat
me American public Is vastly eontentsd. After
Ing and patient waiting Z. neral Miles has his
Istr,ctofs in and out OF office on the hip Yet
il would BE- safe 20 say that the veteran will
take no heed OF old gunlgcs, but will run the
department like a wcll-oilri piece OF machinery.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24
Unnna,s Roasting.

(From the Atlanta Consttuiion)
Mr. Hanna's acknowledgment that he and not
Mckinley is the real President could not be more
clearly stated than by his assumption If a right
to debate with the Democratic candidate for that
high Office.
The people of the country know that he runs
Mckinley and his Administration but it does not
help the Republican campaign for him to go
around Dragging about it in this way
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24

(From the BirGhamton Lcader.)
nanna's attitude toward the trusts shows just
what the public may reasonably expect in ,he
line of Republican effort TO prevent or TO inter
fere with the robbery they have organized into
a system; and Republican admission of Republi-
can insinccrity on the trust question will add
to the Elimination IL further light is needed.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24

suit in exciting derision abroad and con-
tempt at home. But it will be eminently
pleasing to our allies in sc. Petersburg,
and to our friends Tze-Hsi and ,Tuan.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24

Our latest dispatches from China tend
to show that Prince Tuan is stfll the power
behind the throne at the court of the En-
press Dowager. Ii Hung Changes per-
functory denunciatlon of this Manchu
butcher fell fat. and his head would not
be worth moments purchase If he were
not under the protection of Russia. The
viceroy who joined with lin in the me-
mortal against IAan has been promoted"
to a post in an terior province, evidently
with the intention of shortening his stat
ure by head. Tuan, in fact, although
really the dictator of China. is a fugitive
from international justice. We know from
Taylor's case how that class of people al
ways recommend themselves to the friend
ship and protection OF Republican Ad-
ministratlon.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-24

One reason why Heurich's Maerzen and SEM
ate were awarded the prize medal at Paris Is
because of their purify and wholesomeness. Phone
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-12-27
A DAY. Of. MUCH PERJURY
ORIENTAL DAY IN THE POLICE
COURT.
The Police Land One Defendant After
the Prosecuting Witness Withdraws.
Assault with an Axe.

Perjury was rife in the police court
today for it was day of oriental cases
and a lot of Chinese and Japanese witt
nesSes swore against one another as
best as they could. There was a Chinese
case that attracted all of the population
of Chinatown that the court would hold
and a japanese case, which had been
postponed until the complaining wit
ness and the defendant had made
friends and put up an agreement that
was meant to end the case, but which
the police spoiled. The direct contra
dictions in some testimony were very
numerous.
TakamotO was charged with assault
upon MiamotO with a weapon obvious
ly and imminently dangerous to life,
to wit, an axe. Miamoto swore to the
warrant ait the police station last Sa-
turday. He told how TakamOto was
just about to brain him when special
officer Samoa interfered.
This morning the complaining wit
ness and the defendant We're seen sit
ting side by side in the court room, be-
fore the case was called. When it was
called, Deputy Sheriff Chillngworth
who was doing the prosecuting, was
surprised to find out that the complain
ant knew nothing about the matter
/ Miamoto told the court that he was SC
| drunk at the time of the alleged assault
| that he could not remember anything
He did not think he had been assaulted
| with an axe at all.
officer Triest saw the axe just after
! special Samoa had grabbed it, in time
| to save Miamoto's life and the two tolC
| what they had seen. TakamOtO, testify
ing in his own defense, said that he alsC
had been so drunk that he knew moth
ing about the matter.
The decision was a unique one. TIL,
defendant was held for trial before tn,
| Circuit court, in spite of the fact tina
the complaining witness had denied tht
assault. The officers said they saw IT
and the higher court will have to decid
the case.