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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
POWERS ENTERS A DENIAL.
Defendant in, Goebel Case ~contradic...
State's Witnesses.

Defendant in, Goebel Case ContradictNs
States Witnesses.
Caleb Powers, defendant in the Goebel
case, was on the witness stand at George
town, Ky, in his own behalf. He said
that he was on the way. to Louisville
when he heard that Goebel had been as
sassinated. II said it was a shame and
An outrage and that it would blight the
chance of all Of US whose offices were in
contest"
Witness said that the statement Of
Golden that he spoke derisively when told
Of the shooting was absolutely false. He
said he never heard violence talked Of in
any of the conferences in which he par
ticipated, except in one, when Sheriff
Burton of Breckenridge County talked in
m incendiary name and was reproved.
The day after the assassination, witness
said, he began an investigation to learn
where the shot was fired from.
Powers detailed the events Immediately
preceding the arrest of himself and Capt.
Davis. He said his attorney advised him
to make his way to the mountains and re-
main there till public excitement died out
before giving himself up for trial.
THE Legislature had appropriated
100000 for the prosecution Of persons
charged with the crime, and / did not be.
lieve it was possible for me to get a fair
trial in Franklin County. Moreover, I
did not believe the civil authorities there
would protect me. l did not know that I
could get a change of venue and these
were the reasons which suggested flight
from Frankfort"
George Il. Weaver. the witness who
claimed to hail from Colorado and who
asserted that he saw the gun barrel
pointing from the Office of the Secretary
of State at the time Goebel was ~assassi-
mated. was arrested on a warrant charg-
ing him with perjury. The warrant was
sworn, out by the attorneys for the de-
Tense in the Powers case, who say that
they nave found out that Weaver was
not only not in Frankfort the day of the
assassination, but was never there till
last Saturday night.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
CONDITION OF CROPS.
Rain Relieves Drouth Prevailing IN
Atlantic Coast Districts.

AVA0uClC coast U19GftCt0s
The Government crop report issued
Tuesday gives the following summary Of
crop conditions: The drought prevailing
at the close Of the previous week in the
Atlantic coast districts has been wholly
relieved by local rains, except in SOUTH
ern Florida, and the week us a whole In
the districts east Of the Rocky mountains
has been one of highly favorable temper
AZURE conditions, with generally abundant
moisture. On the Pacific coast the condi.
tons were also generally favorable, al
though the eastern portions of Oregon
Washington experienced high tenn.
peratures.
The corn crop has made splendid pro-
gress during the week. All reports from
the States of the central valleys indicate
that it has made rapid growth md that
the early planted is nearing maturity over
the southern portions of the principal
corn States. Some early corn in the Car.
olinas and Virginia has been permanently
Injured by drought, but late corn in these
States is promising.
Winter wheat harvest is practically
completed, except where delayed by rains
IN some districts over the northern por.
ton of che winter wheat region. Thrash.
ing has been quite generally delayed in
the central valleys as n result of rains
and injury to wheat in shock Is quite ex-
.ensively reported. Harvesting continues
on the Pacific coast.
Spring wheat harvest is now general in
the northern portion of the Red river
valley and is progressing favorably in the
southern portion OF the spring wheat re.
gion. The dry, warm weather has rapid
ly matured the crop in North Dakota,
where, owing to short straw, much had
to be moved. In southern Minnesota u
large part of the crop is in shock and in
The northern portion of the State the
wheat heads are reported us we'll filled.
In South Dakota fair to good yields are
Indicated in the extreme southeastern
counties, the crop being poor to fair else
where. but generally of good quality.
Rains have caused some further delay in
the oat. harvest, which, however, is near
iy finished in the more northerly sections.
Some damage to oats in shock is report
ed from West Virginia, Indiana and Hi.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
China for his rescue. 1t will not make
any agreement or condition regarding his

Numerous communications from Chin
csc officials have been received at the
State Department suggesting that the
allies shall be kept at Tien-Tsin in order
that China may be able to protect the
minister's from further attack. The init
nation has clearly been that an attack
upon Pekin will be followed by a gen
eral massacre. The Government has re-
piled to these intimations that it cannot
take them into consideration. \ 1t has
lodged with China a demand Tor free in
tercourse with its minister. That must
be granted without condition. There will
be no change, it is asserted, in the policy
Of this Government toward China, but
China must carry out her treaty obliga-
tons.
The President will not recall the troops
now in China nor check their march ON
the Chinese capital, says a Washington
correspondent. They will move forward
to the rescue of Minister Conger and 9th
er Americans in Pekin. The condition
Of the Chinese capital as reported by
Minister Conger will be the Presidents
only guide in future directions given to
Gen. Chaffce. There is no hope that these
conditions will appear more favorable
than they now do.
The Government, from the information
in it's possession, believes that the i'm
perial troops have attacked the foreign
legations. 1t further believes that Prince
Tuan. the father of the heir apparent,
has directed the hostile demonstrations.
Whatever the purpose Of these attacks,
they were hostile to this Government.
1t is reported from Shanghai that fifty
missionaries have been massacred In the
Shan 81 province. According to a dis
patch from Tien-Tsin, under date Of Sum
day, the japanese vanguard has been re-
pulsed with a loss of $50 killed and
wounded.
The Chinese fortress at Hung Hun
was stormed by the Russians under Gen.
Ajgustof July 80, thus relieving the posts
OF Novokijevskoje and Postja, threaten
ed by the Hung Hun garrison. Many
guns were taken.
The Typographical features Of the coun-
try between Tien-Tsin and Pekin are
favorable to the operations Of trained
troops against such masses al the Chin
csc might collect to oppose them. The
land is low and nearly fat, and the only
difficulties in the way Of transportation
are the streams and the semi-swampy
character Of the soil. It is reported that
the Chinese have prepared dams that will
enable them to food the country. but II
IL improbable that much could have been
done to make these works effective. A
movement up the Pei-Ho river might
sven be aided BY torpedo boats.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
The 1oya Central has ordered 800 steel

The Iowa Central has ordered 800 steel
cars.
Automatic warning bells are to be plac.
ed at every grade crossing of the Santa
be system.
Further friction has occurred between
the differential and the standard lines
east from Chicago over the excess fare
question.
Pocahontas, formerly the only county
seat in Iowa without a railroad, has been
linked with the outer world By a branch
of the Rock Island.
The White Pass and Yukon route has
begun to issue folders setting before the
public the facilities it has to offer for
reaching the gold fields of Alaska.
An alliance between the Santa -. and
Rio Grandc railroads which will result
in a practical union of the two ststems is,
it is reported, about to be formed.
Traffic officials Of the Burlington road
say that Notwithstanding reiterated re.
ports that the soaking rains which Ne
braska received were too late to save
much Of the corn crop, especially in the
southern and southwestern part of the
State, all these reports go to show that
the rain was in ample time to benefit and
did actually benefit the great bulk of the
crop, and with favorable weather from
now to the end more than an averag,
crop in Nebraska will be secured.
Scarcity of farm laborers in the North.
west has caused the owners Of big wheat
fields to appeal to the railroad companies
for help in obtaining men to harvest. on.
GERS OF the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific have instructed their Chicago
agents to send 1000 laborers IL possible,
The passenger earnings Of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railway for the
fiscal year closed June 30 show q marvel.
improvement over the previous year,
The total passenger earnings amounted d
7,698.513.51, an increase Of nearly Il
per cent over last year. The number Of
passengers carried was 6.677.S22
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
lCTOR EMMANUEL.
Prince Of Naples, now King OF Italy, a.
fasult Of assassin's work,

che daughter of a Montenegrin nobleman
She has been most carefully reared by
tutors and go%vernesses and is not only
admirable in all the arts and graces Of
European courts. but is we'll versed In
the play of politics and in every way
qualified to succeed even SO lovely q
queen as Margherita of Italy.
The nuptials Of Prince Vittorio and
Princess Helena were celebrated in Rons
Oct. "a, 1896, with all the pomp and cir
:umstance usual on such occasions.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
,rALy.s NEW KrNo.
Victor Em manuel Reputed to BE .
Scholar and a Soldier.

vtch0f Elm Keputed 60 BE Q
Scholar and q Soldier.
Vittorio Emmanuelo Fernandino Maria
Gennaro, who succeeds his father to the
throne Of Italy, vas the only son Of King
Humbert. He was born Nov. il. 1869.
and has the reputation of being q liberal.
scholarly and soldierly man. He Is q gem
eral In the italian army and a patron Of
art n literature. He is q chevalier Of
the Order Of the Golden Fleece and q
knight of the Garter.
Ellis wife, Itsly's new queen, was the
Princess Helena, one Of the seven daugh.
tiers of Prince Nicholas, tho ruler of the
little principally of Montenegro. She
was born In the reyal palace in Ccttinjs
IN 1873. With her sisters, she inherited
the superb dark beauty nf their mother,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10

served for the family of the bride, were
u%noccupied, while the CORVALLIS West
family was not represented. The Duke
Of Marlborough gave the bride away and
slipped away into a seat neal his young
American wife.
The register was signed by Mrs. More
ton Frewen, the Duke of Marlborough,
Winston Churchill and the best man,
Lieut.. H. O. ELVES, q brother officer Of
Lieut.. West In the Scots guards.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
China Bar. Cipher Messages.

The governor of shantung has telc-
graphed to United States Consul Fowler
at Chefoo that the Tsung-li- Yamen di
reefs him to notify the consuls that "a,
the military operations ut Pekin ant
Ten-Tsin are unsettled" only messages.
in plain Language, without cipher or ref
erence to military affairs, will I've deliv
cred tc the ministers.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
Leaves. cuba for china.

The Second battalion Of the Fifth Unit
ed States infantry, Maj. Borden COM
manding, left Santiago, Cuba, on Mon
day for New York by the transport Nc
Pherson- The companies at Guantanamo
and Baracoa were taken aboard en- route.
The officers have been told to prepare for
a hard winter campaign. All the men,
a dispatch says, are enthusiastic at the
prospect Of service In China.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
Reports 5000 Are Massacred.

1t is reported from Shanghai that the
Boxers attacked the missionaries and ma
tive Christians at Paoting-Fu July 8. "A
foreign physician and 1000 converts were
massacred. The Chinese general, Ii Ho
Keh, is now marching on Pekin. He has
ordered his troops to exterminate all
Christians. Already one French priest
and from 1000 to 5000 natives have been
slaughtered.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
ArtiAerymen Sail for Taku.

The transport Hancock sailed from San
Francisco at 10 o'clock Sunday for Taku.
China, via Nagasnki, with four batteries
Of the Third artillery, numbering 476
men, under command of Capt. Charles.
Humnhreys.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10

What is believed to be a Viking corpse
has been dug up in a peat bog at Damen-
dorf, in Schleswig, and placed in the Kiel
Museum. 1t was well preserved, and had
red hair; it was clothed in coarse wooden
material with sandals on the feet. Kiel
think it was buried 1900 years
0rO
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
LADY RANDOLPH MARRIED.
Is Now the Bride of Lieut.. George
COrnwallis West.

Lady Randolph Churchill (nec Jcrome)
has been married to Lieut.. George Corn.
wallis West. after Il courtship full of
troubles. She is 53 and he is 26. They
are both favorites of the Prince of Wales.
The ceremony was performed at st.
Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London.
The two front pews, which had been re.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
PUSHING ON TO PEKIN'
ALLIED ARMY ADVANCES ON.
CHINESE CAPITAL.
International Rcaief Force of 10000
Men Begins the Forward Movement
Fifty Missionaries Reported Slain
Rumor OF Japanese Repulse.

The march on Pckin began Wednes-
day, and the allied troops, it is declared,
will not turn back until there is u gov
eminent in China capable of maintaining
its international obligations. 1t is esti-
mated that the expedition numbers 30
900 men of all arms, with 10 guns. The
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
Russians Burn Moho,

A dispatch from Gen. N~edermucller at
Stretensk reports that Col. Schwerin haa
occupied and burned Moho, the headauar.
ters Of the Chinese eold-mine industry.
The local garrison, 500 men, and the 1Os-
600 Inhabitants Of the town have lsd. y
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10

column started to-
ward Pekin under
the general COM
mand Of the Rus
sian admiral, Alex
Jeff. By placing the
Russian admiral in
command the allies
settled the first
point Of difference
and secured the
prompt help of
Russia in this I'M
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
For the Defen.e Of shanphai

There are now seventeen foreign war
ships in port at Shanghai, and the United
States consul, Mr.. Goodnow, desires the
municipal council to place the defenses
Of the city under the charge of the senior
naval officer Of the allied feet.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10

DIR. Bellinghazi Of Brazil is using a
new yellow fever serum successfully At
Vera Cruz.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10

W. L. Metcalf.; treasurer Of skaguay,
Alaska. killed himself. III health.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10

The Cuban Constitutional Convention
elections will be held about Nov. Is.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-10
Troops Arrive at TOKYO.

The Fourteenth United States infantr,
from Manila has arrived at Tokyo.
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1900-09-29
LOndOn'S Lost Tunnel.

Is there any. other city in the wide
world where a castiron tunnel, two
and three-quarter miles in length,
could lie disused, unknown, lost to the
memory of. all but a few scientists, for
over thirty years, excepting London? 1
doubt it.
Representing, as it does, the burial
Of close on 100000, is it not simply
marvellous that no effort until the pres
ent has been made to rescue this valu-
able property from the fungi and huge,
whiskered rats, and turn it in to some
profitable utility? The answer is that
the tunnel has been forgotten, simply
lost, and the man who found it found
a gold mine extending from the general
postoffice at st. Martins Grand to
Euston station.
Mr.. George Threlfall, a consulting
engineer, of so Fenchurch street,
found" the tunnel, and the story of
his discovery is one of surrounding an
almost interminable Alps Of obstacles,
with a period Of five years occupied
with continual struggle before success
crowned his efforts.-Windsor
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1900-09-29
The Boys Got In.

The late Dan Rice, the famous circus
man, was fond of boys and always
wanted to see a lot of them in his audi
ence. He never gave performance,
saws the Cleveland Leader, when the
hooks and corners were not filled with
Youngsters who had come in free.
One story of this sort was told by
Captain George ]. Grammer. At the
time of the occurrence Grammer, who
lived in GAINESVILLE, O., was standing
one afternoon with a crowd of other
boys looking longingly into the tent,
but not having the price of admission.
1t was Mr.. Rice's custom to stand at
the door until the first grand entry of
the circus people. when he would
leave. On this occasion he saw the
hungry look oil the faces of the boys
and called them around him. you
want to go in, don't you, boysW
..Bet your life? shouted back the
gQungs4eRs,
"Iii tell yeu Rnst; All the boys who
ase back here In teR t4lnussSs with clean
faces sgd hands get in
TRe weESs were hardly out Of his
moutna> tefesF there was a dash ttol
the MuslIrgpaa ;ite'; and in less than
seven minutes 290 eses;p faces and
hands came back to the teeGt. The
bows went inside with rtsSsa,
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1900-09-29
OHer TOUclS'

A sailor who met with a,serious acct
dent was carried to the London hospi-
tai. The poor mother hurried to the
building to see her son. She was met
by a kind but firm refusal from the
house physician, but nothing daunted
she pleaded for admission to the poor
fellows bedside. Who could resist a
mothers entreatTes? The safety of the
patient lay in his being kept absolutely
quiet, but the physician consented to
her admission on condition that she did
not speak a word. She stole softly to
his bedside and gazed as only a mother
can at her unconscious boy. She dare
not speak, but mothers love was not
to be denied all expression, and gently
laying her hand on his fevered brow
she let it rest there a moment and then
noiselessly crept from the room.
The watchful nurse heard the coma
tose sleeper murmur the words, Her
touch" and, rousing himself, he added,
Surely my mother has been here. 1
know her touchr'
All, there was an electric thrill of
sympathy in that touch which told its
own tale to the dying man!-Weekly
Bouquet.
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1900-09-29

Business manager of great London
newspaper to clerk:
George, take down an advertisement
as l dictate it, and then send it up.
Ready? All right-'Wanted, n man for
a pleasant indoor position. Short
hours, light work, no experience neces-
sary, place permanent, salary, $1,000 a
year. Answer in own handwriting.
Millionaire, Great Daily Office"
Clerk have it down. sir. and will
send it to the printers at once.
Business Manager "a week later)-
George, how many answers were re-
ceived in reply to that advertisement?
Clerk-Eighteen thousand.
Business Manager ian hour later)-
Good morning, sir. What can we do
for you, sir?
Seedy Individual What do you
charge for an advertisement. for situa-
ton wanted?
Business Manager-Our charges are
high, 2 shillings a line, but you must
remember the vast number of people
we reach. Why, sir, in reilly to one
single advertisement inserted last week
there were received $4,000 answersl--
London Tit-Rits.
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1900-09-29
The Dentist Is Polite.

A North Side dentist is sure to be call
ed "a mean man" by some of his wo-
men patrons when they learn of the
trick he has practiced upon them. 1t
happens sometimes that even a rubber
dam will not stop the flow of woman's
speech, and although the dentist, being
a young man, is not averse to a little
pleasant talk" now and then with a
patient, yet if she persists in telling
him her personal or domestic history
during the filling of tooth, hindering
the work, while other patients wait in
the anteroom, it's little trying to his
nerves and temper. The doctor is a po-
lite man; he does not ask the woman
to stop talking, but says gently:
open your mouth, please"
There is silence for a few moments,
when the chatter begins again.
open wider, please" says the dem
fist, more persuasively than before,
and the work goes on rapidly enough
until the patient seeing her opportuni-
ty starts In again where she had left
off in the tale Of everyday woes. The
clock strikes the hour of the next ap-
poiDtment. The dentist seizes the most
terrible of all his instruments, his look
becomes threatening and his voice too:
Please, now, open your mouth very
wide" The ruse succeeds, and the
startled but unsuspecting woman
stretches her mouth into an abysmal
yawn that precludes the possibility Of
even a whisper.
It's a mean trick.-Chicago Tribune.
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1900-09-29
RECENT INVENTIONS.

Small insects are autamatieap ?.
caught by the invention of MaiLe
man, comprising lamp inclosed in a
,conkcai shield and resting in basin
partially filled with a liquid, into
which the insects fall after striking
against the chimney or shield.
Street carsa are prevented from run
ming into openAGrawbridges by South
erner's patent safety device which has
a wedge-shapedSbleesz pivoted on either
side of the track, with levers connect
:. x the block with the bridge to swing
a. ~, Nl0eks over the rails AS the draw
opens.
woven Thermometer a petnter
III d Ut ditto a shaft running through
- connec'' nth an expansfble bar in
me uooi' Seges the pointer as. tne
sue Mlicn L camper being set in the
nea' 'aries' 'ed when the heat In
uoor " pe open sdae .p.oipfer to a, Ger
tain height. o,
To enable fremen t. a IT, r <ree 4
down ladder with bot. -,
new apparatus has a hea. - ~
bent into U-shape, with st @t III nd neu
at the bottom of the U, hoo rs ing
provided at the top to fit over oe n 'e
mans shoulders and straps to ho4 q the'
person in the saddle.
For sailboats a new attachment ~
lows the mast to be moved to eithelt
side of the boat as the wind shifts,
a horizontal arm being pivoted at the
forward end of the hull, In the outer
end of which the mast is set, with a
lever which allows the bar to be shift
ed to adjust the mast