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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-02
DAVIS FAvoRs The TARIFF.
Says There Is No other way TO pr.
vide Porto Rico Expenses.

Says There 10 No Other Way TO Pro.
vide Porto Rico Expenses.
San Juan, Porto Rico, April 2.-In an
interview with an Associated Press cor
respondent Governor General Davis
said:
II have not felt it proper for me to
discuss congressional matters, filling as
do an executive position. / have ex-
pressed my views fully, however. on
Porto Rico's needs and might say that
Iif congress should adopt free trade the
receipts Of the customs houses would
naturally cease. One million five hun
bred thousand dollars have been collect
ed during the fiscal year. and with free
trade this would fall on. What then will
run the island?
Altho / have received no official adj
vices regarding the appropriation. un-
|derstand thru the newspapers that the
appropriation was decided upon and
Infer this appropriation will be spent on
insular government expenses. II free
trade.is adopted i can not see how nee
essary funds for conducting the affaire
of the island are to be raised by myself
or those who succeed me. Two million
dollars are the present expenses and
this amount will be needed annually
There is only small revenue incoming
from clamps. liquors, tobacco and mer-
camille licenses, and it is impossible to
collect taxes because OF the conditions
w. r. Townes. president OF the Porto
Rico American Tobacco Company, says
the proposed tariff will keep Porto Rico
out OF the American market; that Porto
Rico will sell to Europe. China and ia.
pan, but not a pound to the United
States.
The tariff means difference OF $72s
on each 1000 pounds OF finished tobacco
United States makers can buy the same
leaf and make it up in the United States
and sell 1t 1925 cheaper than the Porto
Rico manufacturers.
"A Porto Rican says the American To.
bacco Company employs 5000 hands al
Ponce and San Juan, and has an output
OF cigars and cigarets to the value ol
81. 600, 900 annually
The mayors Of many towns have be.
come dissatisfied and wish to resign
altho only elected a few months ago
They do not like the responsibility Of
their ONCE and empty treasures, and 8
general order was recently issued pro.
hibiting destinations except on account
OF Illness. &
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-02
spAN1ARDs GIVEN MORE TIME.
SIX Months ~ ore for Those In Phil
tppines 10 Change Flags.

SIX Months N ore for Those In Fhil.
tppines 10 Change Flags.
Washington. March sO.-Secretary
Hay and Duke dsArco, the Spanish min
lister, yesterday signed protocol ex-
tending for six months the period OF
time allowed Spanish residents in the
Philippine islands to elect whether they
shall remain Spanish subjects or sur.
render their allegiance and adopt the
nationality of the territory in which
they reside.
The article in the Paris treaty bear
ing on this subject allowed the Spanish
residents one year from the date OF the
exchange of ratif1cations OF the treaty
within which to make their choice. That
period expires on the 18th OF next
month.
The extension arranged for does not
apply to Cuba or Porto Rico. II is cons
fined in operation to the Philippines for
the reason that conditions in the archi-
pelago have been SO unsettled as to war
rant the Spanish residents in hesitating
in making an election in this important
matter.
where Spanish subjects reside, are as
YET WITHOUT American SaFrlsOnS ana the
assertion Of American sovereignty over
them has been rather technical than
practical, while on many Of the Philip
pine islands no American troops have
ever landed. These considerations are
deemed sufficient to warrant the extern
sion to the Spanish residents Of more
time in which to make up their mind
as to their future. II may be. too, that
the Spanish residents in these islands
desire to avoid making n choice until
there has been some authoritative and
final determination in the United States
of the exact status of citizens in the in
sular possessions OF the United States.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-02

agreed to allow the annexation OF the,
Boer republics. This step, however, will
not silence the strenuous protests Of
many Of the rank and file.
The Rev. Mr.. Sheldon's issue of the
Topeka Capital, as republished here,
meets with more ridicule than anything
else. The following comment by the
Globe on the enterprise Is fair speci-
men:
The journal Is very like an ordinary
American paper. only duller. It will be
an evil day when the hysterical rub
bish which poses as religion in America,
and to a lesser degree in England, ever
has a large following
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-02

BIG GAMBLING PROJECT.
New YORKER Plans 10 start !. Gamb.
ling and Amusement Hall at cape

N OIU0s
New York, March 3o.-Gamblers are
Interested in the project OF John r.
sConsidine and his friends to erect In
Cape Nome a tlleater. dance hall and
huge gambling establishment. Consf-
dine has been perfecting plans for the
venture for several weeks. and 1t 10 ex-
spected now that the amusement pal
ace for t.he miners Of Cape Nome will
be ready early in June.
Gambling, of course. will be the chief
feature OF the place, and every kind of
game will be there. The Layout" has
been purchased and II is OF the most
Expensive and elaborate kind. Those
who are interested in the scheme have
advanced, 1t is said, nearly $4,000 to
carry out the preliminary arrange
fments properly, and these included the
ichartering for the summer months OF
the steamboat Grand Rapids. which
will sail from Seattle early in April,
carrying the material for the barnlike
structures, Which have been built in
Seattle and will be carried In sections
to Cape Nome and there erected. Con-
fsidine will also ship to Cape Nome a
company OF vaudeville performers who
Will take care Of the theatrical part of
the scheme.
Considine does not like to talk about
the matter. but he said: Yes. / have
planned the establishment of big
amusement hall in Cape Nome and
have purchased ground in the principal
street 1t is a legitimate enterprise.
We will devote careful attention to the
theatrical end of the game. shall send
an experienced manager out to look af-
ter the vaudeville show and the dance
hail. OF course We will run gambling
hall in connection with 1t. What min
ing camp is complete without a gam
bling hall?
The gambling layout which will be
carried to the mining country will cons
sist Of roulette. faro, craps. klondike,
red and black, and there will be many
lay-o outs OF each game. The entire sec
ond floor OF the structure which will be
erected will be given over to the gam
bling interests. Consldine did not care
to tell who We're interested in the, pro-
ject with him. but it is said that George
n. Liable. Mark Norton Thomas K.
considine and William Alalloy form the
Syndicate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-02
MADE HIM BEG FOR his LIFE.
An Armed Burglar Captured and
Kicked by Unarmed storek eeper.

An Armed Burglar Captured and
Kicked by Unarmcd storekeeper.
keytesville, No.. March 3O-R,chard
Coleman captured burglar in his store
at Cheaneville,. six miles north Of this
place, Sunday night, He went 10 his
store about IL o'clock to telephone to
lSeytesville for a physician. In the store
he stumbled over q burglar. who was
hiding behind the counter. Coleman
was unarmed, and the burglar had a
revolver. The storekeeper grabbed the
burglar by the collar and kicked him
about the store, threatening to kill him
if lie resisted The burglar begged for
his life and Coleman led him home.
searched Tim and took his revolver.
"Wednesday he brought the burglar To
Jail here. The man Gays he heard per-
sons talking outside the store and sup
posed they belonged to a posse come to
arrest him: that was the reaeon he did
not dare shoot. He gave his name as
Edward Jones and said he belonged to a
gang tina: had been robbing depots and
stores. He claims another burglar was
In Colemans' store with him. Nothing
was seen Of this other burglar. $
Five men were seriously injured by
the premature explosion Of 9 blast at
Spokane, Wash. The men were working
n the foot OF Q rock bank when twenty.
ave tons sos rock leosened " q blast
lf0l1Ad nnnm m ~ n ~ :ls
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-05-25

When the Grout oleomargarine bill was
under discussion in the House two weeks
ago a resolution was adopted, it will be re-
membered calling on Secretary Gage for
the information in the possession Of his
department as to the constituents of oleo-
margarine According TO the data supplied
by the secretary there is very little butter,
cream or milk in the product. OF the cleo
margarine manufactured in December last
about 30 per cent was lard, nearly 20 per
cent was cleo oil, 4.34 per cent was cotton
seed oil, 90 per cent was butter oil, So
per cent was salt, and there were fractions
of one per cent of glycerine, stearine, Sc
same, sugar and glucose. The butter was
nine-tenths of one per cent, or less than
one-hundreth of the whole. The milk in
it, however, figured out 1913 per cent and
cream 402 per cent. The 'butter OIL
sounds well. but it turns out to be yari-
ETY. of cottonseed OIL OF the $780, 600
pounds OF oleomargarine sold in 1890, some
Il COO, 600 pounds was fat not derived
from milk, and of this fat 3l,297, PSI
pounds was lard.
The makers Of oleomargarine claim that
it is the "butter of the masses" aud that
tits a wholesome article Of food. Granted.
But the essential fact is that the masses
have right to know what they are eating,
and that nobody has a right to make or
sell an imitation of butter under the pre-
tence that il is the genuine article.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-05-25
An Eye for an Eye.


The esteemed Londonderry Sitter does
not believe in tuning the other CHEEK to
the smiter. 10 an editorial last week on
second district politics, it brazrnly pro-
poses to support Frank Plumley If North
field tori Congressman against Col. Haskins
of its own county for two reasons. The
first is that the SITTER is mad because Judge
Read can't be congressman; the second Is
because Col, Haskins is getting old and
deaf" Good and excellent reasons, for
sooth. Admitting that Col. Haskins has
"a large measure of ability, in fact sui
ticient 10 bring him to full congressional
size" and that personal friendship and
county p,iie' urge his support, yet out Of
spite and jealousy for Read, the Sitter
turns its back on Haskins and reaches out
helping hand TO Plumley. II the Sitter
can't have Read, Windham county shall
have no candidate. The Sitter is childish ;
it better get out its rocking horse and tin
horn and 90 play with the Springfield Re
porter, which has been attacked with the
same disease in a different form. The lat
ter iourna. has been watching the game
and thinks it has discovered which way the
procession is going and is trying to get
| there first and yell "Come on, boys. In
other words the Reporter supports Plum
ley as against Hsskins because it thinks
| Plumley is in the lead
Dear brethren, can't you find better
reasons for your position? AS a matter OF
| fact no one can tell how Windham county
will 60. As matter of opinion the most
reliable authorities give Col. Haskins a
! solid Windham county backing, and a
practically solid backing in Windsor coun-
ty. BE will get considerable support in
Orleans and Orange counties. Plumley,
Stafford and Dale will divide up the north
eIn counties and beat one another. Up &c
date Col Haskins has the advantage and
the Reporter will need one more guess be-
fore it picks a winner.
Even If all the Sitter says about Haskins
and Read were true, what a contemptibly
weak argument in the face of admission Of
the formers ability. If it were a crime il
politics for each man to look out for him
self our iails would be crowded. That Col
Haskins is becoming old and deaf is mort
than amusing; it is ridiculous. Mr.. Plum
ley is eight years his junior, but if anyone
seriously believes that Haskins is in hi
dotage, he would do well to go down tC
Brattleboro and interview that gentleman
"Sifter John" knows better. Col. Haskin
can serve as long term in the House a
any man ought to. The Tribune believe
he is Windsor countys choice and thu
Sitter will find he is Windham county
choice.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-05-25

worth S150OOO.OOO The buildings are
such as grace the streets of great
American cities.
Now Johannesburg is deserted. save
for the blacks and for 5000 or 6.OO0
German and American uitlanders, who
are employed by the B0er government
TO work the mines. Most. Of the shops
and office buildings are boarded up.
Grass is growing in the streets.
But the blowing up of Johannesburg
would be only a feeble slap compared
to what the destruction of the mines
would mean to the whole British peo-
pie. These mines are the property of
stock companies. The stockholders are
to be found in almost every city, town
and village in Great Britain. Thrifty
mechanics, small shopkeepers, saving
clerks, servants all classes, from the
lord who counts his shares by the
thousand to the bookkeeper who has
bought single one with his nest egg
all would learn that a Beers arm is
long and that his hate is deep.
For the stretch OF 60 miles between
Randfonteiu and Moddersfontein there
Is one continued row of mines, edged
almost like a street with immense mills,
roaring crushers and straining hoists,
and each with its great compound,
covered with iron buildings, in which
thousands of negro workers live.
To the making of these mines have
been brought the wealth of Europe,
the brains of America and the Drawn
Of southern Africa. Countless millions
have been poured out to drive the long
shafts into the bosom of the earth, to
set up the vast structures Of iron and
to construct the irresistible engines Of
steel.
Just what has been done to the
mines is doubtful, but il Is said that
every shaft and drift on the rand has
its charge of dynamite ready laid; that
every building is underlaid with the
dreadful explosive, and that each
cartridge Of dynamite is connected
by an electric wire running to a central
station, which is situated in an IN
known place. At an appointed moment
| President Kruger, sitting calmly in
/ the statehouse at Pretoria, need do nc
more than touch button, and the dy.
Mantle will do the rest.
All through the 60 miles of the RAND
! immense ore mills, with their costly
stamping machinery, will leap into the
air, steel crushers win be twisted into
shapeless tangles of metal beams ant
cables and sorting machinery will be
smashed and broken into scrap iron
boilers will be burst and delicate en-
glnes demolished, tons of rock anC
rubbish will fall into the shafts, whicl
were drilled with SO much labor, anC
cross workings thousands of feet be
low the surface will be shattered.
Thus, in the space of second, will
10000 blasts rolled into one frightful
roaring explosion, the vast man mad,
wealth of the Witwatersrand, said L
amount to S2OO,0O0O0O, will be wipet
out and demolished.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-05-25
MONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO FRIDAY, MAY 20. 1900.
AmsricsnsIn Cubn

The Havana correspondent Of the New
York Times writes that Cuba is literally
overrun with Americans Of all ages, all
conditions Of life, Of all professions and of
no profession. The tide of emigration
has turned from the West southwark to
Cuba, and when the government shall
have become settled it is expected that
there will be such an inhowing to that
island as has not been exceeded anywhere
in years. Although the streets of Cuba
are not paved with gold to be had for the
picking up, it is true that those who really
are looking for work, and are able to do It,
need have no fear of starvation, Hundreds
of men are employed in cleaning the
streets; there is need of laborers on the
many highways that are being built and
repaired; work can be secured on the
electric roads in course of construction,
and there are many other Improvements
which employ much labor.
Men are not alone in seeking their
fortunes on Cuban soil. Many women
have gone there also. Some have found
hobulIE uul ldllults Aol tue Must ptlO NilG
to the changed conditions Of living, but
many have met With marked success.
There is great danger of the island of Cuba
becoming over supplied with school teach
ers, and stenographers too are growing
more numerous every day. Many who
90 with no inclination 70 work, as well as no
profession, find that their visions Of Cuba
as an FL Dorado vanish very shortly after
their arrival Instead Of allowing these to
remain to become a burden, the gov
eminent sends them back to America.
On a recent transport there were A. such
Americans going back as the guests of the
| government.
Among the real needs in Cuba the Times
correspondent names good hotel carried
on in a manner which accords with the
tastes and ideas of Americans and real
| New York department store.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-05-25

1t is expected that the British occu-
patton Of Pretoria, If it ever occurs,
will Ice the most costly victory. from a
financial viewpoint, ever won. Before
the first Of Lord Roberts army enters
the Boer capital some one will push an
electric button. Bang, Hundreds OF
millions worth of property viii be
wiped out. The Beers Will have blown
up Johannesburg and destroyed the
mines.
Possibly this may come earlier. II is
understood that the destruction of Jo-
hannesburG will begin whenever it is
apparent that the British intend 10
make it their headquarters during the
siege Of Pretoria.
There is but one historical precedent
for such Il course. and that is the burn
ing Of Moscow upon the approach Of
Napoleon. True, our own forefathers
threatened TO burn New York city dur
ing the Revolution TO prevent the Brit
ish occupation and TO get revenge on
the Tories, but they did not DO it. Then
| there is the case of the Dutch. who,
! you know, twice threatened to open
the bikes and make Holland part Of
! the ocean rather than let in the inyad-
| err. But the dikes were never opened.
viii the Beers carry out their threat?
| No one knows. 1t is quite probable.
| President Kruger is credited with de-
| nying the report. He is said to have
| declared that the Transvaal govern
! ment had thus far protected private
property and that it meant To do so,
! whatever happened. But perhaps Kru-
! ger could not control his people in the
event Of n series Of disastrous defeats.
1t is certain that the majority of the
Beers hate the British so bitterly that
they would not hesitate to take such a
| revenge.
But there are many who believe that
Kruger would not raise 4 finger to pre-
vent the destruction of Johannesburg
and the mines. A recent dispatch from
! Pretoria reads. Twenty mines
have been charged with dynamite by
the order of the assistant state mining
engineer" Out of Johannesburg have
come rumors that explosives have been
] pAaNtu uLNtl All lAt ~ AA4Nl par bAAlA7
ings.
The destruction of Johannesburg
would be n blow at men whom the
Beers hate most heartily. 1t is the
richest and most beautiful city on the
continent Of Africa. Golden Johannes
burg is no Inappropriate name. But
II is not Boer built. 1t was the uitland
er population who built its splendid
mansions, its imposing business blocks
its palatial clubs, its ornate opera
house, its solid banks and its fine no
tells.
Before this war began there were
100000 people in johannesburg, nearly
as many as Moscow held when the
drums of Napoleon's army were hearC
beating across the hills. The houses
in which they lived and the stores anC
luXuries which they possessed arr
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-05-25
The War in SOuth Africa.
Mafeling RelisVed---the News Causes
wild JubIIaIiOn in London.

A brief despatch received in London at 0
o'clock last Friday evening announced that
the garrison at Mafeking. in the Transvaal,
had been relieved by a column despatched
by Lord Roberts from Kimberley early in
May for that purpose. This news set Lon
don wild as no other event of the war in
South Africa has done. The whole popula-
ton poured into the streets in a tumult Of
rejoicing and the jubilation was kept up ell
night and through the next day. II ended
in riotous attacks by the lawless element
on persons and places known to be in sym
patty with the Beers.
Mafeking is a small place and it plays a
small part in the course of the war, but
the valor Of the garrison in defending the
place against overwhelming odds appeals
peculiarly to the British national pride. Its
siege began with the beginning Of the war
last October, and had lasted PIG days. On
the 10th of October the little garrison of
1900 men repealed au attack of 5000 Beers.
The subsequent history of the siege is one
of repeated attacks by the Beers, always
unsuccessful; Of occasional sortes by the
garrison. sometimes successful and some
times otherwise of demands on the part of
| the Beers for the surrender of the town
ard of scornful replies from Baden Powell
and of the gradual but sure increase in
sickness and scarcity of food
The real defender of Ma.eking was Col.
! Baden Powell, whose uuhagging courage
and military resourcefulness kept up the
| spirits of his men in spite of short ra-
| tions, sickness and an always lengthening
death roll. Ten thousand people spent Fri
| day night cheering and singing in front of
! Mr.. Baden Powelrs house in st. George
| Place, London, where the colonel lives
| when at home.
There appears to be no doubt that the
! Boer rank and file are becoming more aud
more discouraged. The relief of Mafeking
was followed BY confident claim that
Kruger had sued for peace, but this had
| M foundation in fact
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-05-25
l,rArE Do VEMMONT, MarLhoro. 81

= Rs the Probate touri for said District
To 81 persons interested 10 the estate of JON
ATTAIN SMITH, late Of Brattl- boro in said dis.
trict, deceased, Greeting.
the estate of jonathan Smi h. late or Brattleboro
10 said district, deceased has filed his petition
ia his court. setting forth that the sale Of the
whole Of the real estate of said deceased will be
Beneficial 10 the heirs ana all persons Interested
therein, and praying for license to sell the same,
and at the same time filed Ia this court what pur
ports 10 be the consent 10 writing OF all the heirs
residing ln this state to such sale Whereupon il
is ordered that the same be- heard at the session
of said court, C. be ED at the Probate Ottce 10
Bratt rhoro, on the last Saturday Of May A. d
1900, when and where you may be heard in the
premises, II you see cause
-. "A. I. SCHMFNK. REGISTER.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-05-25
VERMONT NEWS.
Back In wOodstock Jail

rank Shaw, the younger of the two
aesperadoes who broke jail in Woodstock
IN April and was recaptured near Middle
bury Is again prisoner in the Woodstock
Jail lie was taken there Tuesday from
tne Mlddlebury jail by Sheriff Stafford.
ms lett arm which was pierced by a bullet
during bis capture gives him some pain.
out the wound in his body is nearly healed
supported by Sheriff Spafford he was able
TO walk into the jail and to his cell on the
second floor. He seemed Indifferent as TO
ms return to his old quarters. At White
RIVER junction Shaw had a hearing before
Justice Darrah, States Attorney Sargent
prosecuting, on a warrant issued before
sheriff Hoffman died, charging him with
assault with intent to kill. He was placed
under $4,000 bonds to answer at the June
term of the Windsor county court