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La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
Chinese Pawnbrokers-

Among the Canton houses there are
occasional exceptions TO the usual one
storied or low constructions. Some OF
these are built like square towers four
or five stories high. with no outside
windows save at n considerable dis
tance above the ground and no out
side projections by which thieves
might get In. These establishments
are called pawnshops. But they ap-
pear to more resemble banks. II Is
usual among the Chinese to deposit
their possessions of value. when not
in use. in these establishments. The
people also store there in summer
their winter clothing, on which money
Is often lent. To have dealings with
a pawnshop is in no way considered
derogatory to Chinese gentleman's 8
dignity.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
Heroic Treatment

In guiana. II child is slow in its
movements the parents apply an ant
to the child. instead of whip. to make
1t move faster. This little ant bites
more cruelty than a mosquito. ana irs
bite Is apt to be troublesome after
wards. As you can imagine, this treat
ment does not make the child kind to
others. and the children Of Guiana do
not reckon their age by years but by
their ability to endure pain. Until he
gets to the point where he can let tho
Hucu ant bite him without wincing
he is considered merely a baby.-Kan-
sas City Independent
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
a CoICcsron Hero.

There are few men In Texas with
such a well developed propensity foI
getting into d!sagreeable Jobs AS Col.
Hunt McCaleb, who WAS adjutaut gem
eral Of the city forces when Galveston
WAS under martial law. When Gen.
Thomas Scurry was appointed TO the
military command of the city by May
or Jones he at once offered the ap-
pointment OF adjutant general TO Col
McCaleb, Why he did so nobody ap-
peared to know. for McCaleb is not
popular. In normal times he is aa
unassuming newspaper plodder af the
most ordinary stripe, But he seems
fpirly to reyel in row. and perhaps
that Is why Gen. Scurry appointed
him to the responsible position OF
adjutant general. and gave into his
hands the work of managing the srca..
mass OF detail which devolyed upon
the military government
There was no las 20 guide him sase
common sense. and. according 60 his
story. whca he needed law right
badly TO cover a case which presented
itself at the adjuiant generals once.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
800 Reward 800.

The readers OF this paper will be pleased to
learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able To cure In all Its
stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
medical fraternity. Catarrh being u constitu-
t!onai disease requires "a constitutional treat
ment- Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system thereby destroying the
foundation Of the disease. and giving the patient
strength hy building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work The pro-
prietors have much faith in its curative
powers that they ofler One Hundred Dollars for
any case that 1t falls TO cure Send for list q
Testimonials
Address r J. CHENEY 4 Co. Toledo. O
Sold by druggists 7sc-
Halls Family Pills urc the best
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
col. McCALEB.

lie would grind one out as fast as his
stenographer could work a typewriter.
During the ten days of martial law
forty-sia general orders were issued.
Gen. Scurry says they were models OF
military conciscness. In these forty
six orders this newspaper plodder,
whom the hurricane had tossed into
position of despotic power second only
to the military governor himself. gave
to the town a code OF laws which
brought order out of chaos. defined
the common law rights which would
certain terms the common law rights
which ceased to exist under this fear
ful and peculiar military despotism.
But more wonderful than this was the
fact that the people proper, who had
been governed with an iron hand and
often at the muzzle OF rifle, rose up
and proclaimed against the proposed
abrogation of martial law. 1t was
McCaleb who first suggested to Gen.
Scurry that the time had come to get
back to civil government As the ad-
jutant general had been in the closest
touch with the people. Gen. Scurry
placed great store on his opinion. He
saw the correctness OF 1t. and told the
mayor that martial law must cease,
and in twenty-four hours the machin-
cry of civil process was again in mo-
ton.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

ly with society. and for which publish
ers eagerly bid 1t was then she came
as near founding a salon as was pos
sible in New York. Her houses at
Oyster Bay and in the city were the
rendezvous OF persons OF both sexes
with literary and artistic tastes.
After the death OF Mr.. Cruger and
the discovery that wealth was not herr.
Mrs. Crugrr dipped deeper into the
stream OF light fiction. and under the
nom de plume of Julian Gordon"
wrote cleverer sketches than ever.
Then came the desire TO live abroad
and for the past year or more Mrs.
Cruger has occupied a charming VII
Ia In Florence.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
A STORY OF EDISON.
Tskss Y..t A~..... aud s~cas~s E.-
piay m~nt.

pioy mrnt.
A tall young countryman. looking as
green as a suit of "butternut" clothes
and slouch hat could make him. APP
piled for work In the Broad street,
New York. Office Of Maury Smith. In
1871. Mr.. Smith was manager OF the
consolidated telegraph lines, then in
opposition TO the Western Union Like
all managers. he could make room for
an expert operator. and told the young
rustic that an engagement depended
altogether upon his skill, Try me; l
can keep up with the best of en-"
said the stranger. Mr.. Smith noticed
that the applicant appeared to be quite
deaf; but. out OF curiosity. and pos
sibly with the idea of having some fun
with him. he gave him a table and
told him to receive" message then
due from Washington. You will have
TO work pretty fast" he warned him.
for our Washington man is In the
habit of rushing things" As mat
ter OF fact there was no message e1-
pected from Washington, nor did the
wire lead there. Mr. Smith connected
the receiver with sender" In an
other part OF the same operating room.
and put his fastest operator. ''Dick"
Hutchinson at work sending q twc
thousand word message. Edison. for
1t was he. grasped pen. and ac soon
as the instrument began to click he
dashed off the copy in a large, round,
legible hand. While deaf to ali other
sounds. he could catch the fainiest
metallic click. On camu the message
faster and faster. twenty thirty, forty
words minute A crowd OF operators
gathered around. curiosity and then
amazement depicted on their faces
Page after page WIZ reeled OF, with
never a break, and with the last click
OF the instrument, the forty-mlnute
message ha1 been received perfectly
and lay in nean of manuscript on the
table. The young mans triumph was
complete. Hutchinson rushed up and
shook hands with him. and Mr.. Smith
gave hiu a tc; ca the spot.-Success.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
The RsSbr 10 HISS.

A Kansas City judge has laid down
new canon In theatrical criticism.
Two men at the Standard theater in
that city who d:d not like the per-
formance expressed their disapproval
by kissing. They wa-e arrested and
fined. the court deciding that while
every citizen has the right to indulge
in criticism. he has no right to dis
turb the enjoyment of others. The
learned Judge apparently did not re-
member that persons sometimes ap-
plaud and usually applaud in the
wrong time. which disturbs many
persons The two victims ought to 20
to Paris, where recently an audience.
displeased with tthe performance,
broke the windows and chairs and
wound up by turning hose on the
performers. There are many occasiona
when an audience feels like turning on
the hose, but Paris IL che onAy pnao
whsrs this luxury Il enjoys4
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

Under ordinary circumstances news
that an Indian tribe is lndulging in
the wild frenzy known as the ghost
dance Ia enough to call up visions OF
murder and rapine. In past days num-
erous murderous raids OF the red men
have been preeeded by such festivals.
But ghost dance now being held in
the Wichita and Kiowa reservations
of Indian territory is not believed to
presase any such terrible scenes. The
reservations named are to be opened
to white settlers when the allotment
OF lands to Indians shall have been
completed. and the red men fear that
once the paieface geps in among them
the days OF tribal power will have
been numbered with the view OF
preventing the impending incursion
these older chiefs have organized the
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
cur,.u. In.s,ne, !. w.-a..

Weeds. II they are pulled out Of the
lawn at the time when they are full
OF seeds. will envince a degree of care
for the seeds which is almost touching.
They will curl their leaves upward ~
far as each can go to cover the seeds
the end. and often one will find weeds
that are quite dead, sun killed, whose
leaves still are wrapped firmly around
the seed pods No mother could show
more striking devotion in death than
do these despised plants.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
DOG KILLED sv TIGERS.
Smell os blood Eseii~s Animais In Lincoln
rAFk. Chicago.

Smell Of BloOd Exettes 1An1mAis In Lincoln
PArk. ChirAgo.
Women aud animals Joined In a panic
at the Lincoln park ZOO recently. when
dog. tossed OH top OF the cages by
the elephant. was torn limb from limb
and deyoured by two tigers. Women
screamed and the Wild animals. fright
encd by The noise and excited by the
smell OF blood. uttered terrible cries
that brought the park police and ami
NAL keepers from all sections OF the
zoo. The elephant almost broke his
chain In his frantic efforts to free him
self
The Inflated dog had excited the an
ger OF the elephant Dutch" by con-
tinuaily jumping on his platform.
Winding its trunk tightly about the
dogs body the elephant swung the ca
nine high In the air and then hurled
him clear across the animal house, so
that he fell ON top OF the tigers cage.
His legs slipped through the iron bars,
and almost instantly were champcd by
the vicious jaws OF the tigress. Kitty.
Tom. her mate, assisted. and. making
successive leaps from the shelf ia their
sage. they had torn all four limbs
from the dog when Keeper McCurren
appeared. The mnncled dog lived but
Il few missaies after being released.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
a CATS ABILITY.
sae.es. In Finding tn. Center of the
Circle

Circle
THE eat came back" because she
instinctisely comprehends distances
and airecl.ons. but who would suppose
that cat can exactly locate the CEN
ter OF a circle? You would naturally
suppose that careful measurement and
more than cat intelligence would be
required for such a task. but a cat
can. for 1t has done that very thing.
says the New York Herald. The cat
referred to lives up in Orleans coun-
ty, and when her owner tried to put
her in box for removal to his sum
mer Home she escaped and took refuge
under circular outbuilding. There
was only room enough for her to run
under, and there she sat, oblivious to
all threats and entreaties. A stick ten
feet long WIS procured. but the cat
did not move as it was poked at her.
The fact that the stick and the own
er's arm were just long enough to
reach within four inches of Kitty
Buff" The man took the stick to the
opposite side OF the building. and came
just as near and no nearer the cat
than before. She held the position first
taken without moving an inch. He
made circuit of the building and
tried to reach her from all points.
yut always with the same result She
was just beyond his reach from every
direction. That cat had at the first
dash put herself absolutely In the CEN
ter OF the circle.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

Sig. Gallo. the new Italian minister
of public instruction. is being crltl-
cised by the German press because ne
has eliminated the study of German
from the curriculum of the iutermedi-
ate schools. That language was intro
duced In the Italian schools by Sig.
Baccelli. Galio's predecessor. The Ger
man papers assert that Italy's CONNER
.ial relations with Germany. Austria.
end Switzerland are becoming closer
year by year. and that the German
tongue is necessary to Italians
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

marry "a wealthy
young Bostonian
named Gardner.
and New York SO
ciety is pleased
theFeat.
Before the death
of her husband
Mrs. Cruger fel!
into the habit Of
writing sh ort
stories and novels.
which dealt Who'll
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

years as its note
teller. and had the implicit confidence
ot its officers. 1t is probable that AL
word lost the greater Part Of the
money he stole In speculatlng in the
street. at the very entrance to which
he handled millions of dollars George
+. Baker. president of the bank, has
issued this statement:
The aggregate OF the false entries
amounting to 100000. has been
charged OFF on the books OF the bank,
out OF the reserve fund, without d.
minishing the surplus. and profits OF
the bank as reported in Its last pub
lished statement 1t is expected that
the shortage will be materially re-
duced by a substantial sum. OF which
there Is fair prospect OF recovery ''
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

ferred to a new
post and will be
succeeded by Count
Quadt. who has just
arrived and is now
looking for a suit
a BILE residence.
Count Quadt has
spent his life in
the German diplo-
matte service and
Ia a man of great
wealth and social
inclination The
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

The late Lord Russell once presided
at dinner given to Sir Henry Irving
on the latter's return from America
While the dinner was in progress Lord
Russell suggested that Comyns Carr
propose Sir Henry's health Il can't
make speeches, you know" said he.
Sir Henry gently replied: Il heard
you make fine speech before the Par
nell commiasion." To which the pun
gent Irishman answered: "Oh. yes. but
then had something to talk Ahnss
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
Rr.t for ,hr Rauria.

No matter what aIls you. headache
to cancer, you viii never get well
until your bowels are put right.
CASCARETS help nature, cure you
without grippe or pain. produce easy
natural movements cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back.
CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the
genuine put up in metal boxes. every
tablet has C. c. c. stamped on It Be-
ware OF limitations.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
sim More Countrrf.ltInS.

The Secret Service has nnearthed an
other band OF counterfeiters and Sc
cured quantity Of bogus bills, which
are eievcrly executed. Things OF great
value are always selected for imitation,
notably Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
which has many imi,ators but no
equals for disorders like Indigestion,
dyspepsia and constipation.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

the banks FUNDS
and has abscond-
ed The banks Of
hcers positively da-
ny taat anyone In
the bank or that
any OF its deposit
ors was in collu-
sion with Alyord.
He had been twen-
ty years in the
banks employ, six
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
An E.p-n.ix- Orchid.

The record price paid for an orchid
lately in England is S2.1oo for a plant
OF new species called the canopus,
from the interior of Brazil 1t has a
most lovely bloom. each flower eight
inches across, streaked white and pur-
pie.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

Thoughtful people are realizing more
and more the folly and danger OF taking
into their systems strong cathartics and
poisonous drugs. and for this reason Gar
Held Tea-which is mild but potent lax
ative composed entirely OF HERBS-has
taken the highest place in the esteem of
the medical profession and conservative
people throughout the world. 1t Is posi-
ache
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

ghost dance. which VIII. they hope.
serve to keep the white men away.
Binnki, the leader of the ghost
dance. is a high priest in his tribe and
dreamer as we'll. He is quiet man
between so and 60 years OF age, OF
dignified name. and with a thought
ful countenance. according well with
his tribal positions as chief priest and
head man.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

No man viii ever attain great fam,
and high position in life whose wifi
goes with him to the ready made cloth
ing store and picks out his clothes FOL
him
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

Now come the melancholy days
When dead leaves lie in autumn's ways
And hearts Will deeply feel bereft
Whose fayorite candidates get left.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

Dear Dochter. pies gif bearer nvs
sense worth of epccac for to throw mp
In I'VE months old babe. " B.-The
babe has . sore stummick."
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

Fish and beans may do for Boston, bu
southerners insist that the best braif
food Is cornbread and bacon.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
He Stole 100000.

Cornelius L. Alvord. note teller in
the First National bank OF New foFS.
Wall street, has stolen $IVe-u9O OF
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

willie-Tommy James went and hit m
an awful crack with an apple Papa
On purpose? willie-No: on the nose
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

The bad men Of the Southwest are evi-
IDENTIFY not as good marksmen as they
Were The population of Arizona has in
creased lpi per cent. in ten years
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
Nesu Counf CominS.

Baron Won Sternberg. who has been
first secretary to the German embassy
here for several years. has been trans
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
PUTNAM FADELEss DYES do not
stain the hands or spot the kettle.

Men who don't know enough to run 4
one-horre piow can tell YOU how this gov
ernment ought 10 be run.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

Piso's Cure cannot be too bishiy spoken of .
seouTh eurc.TJ. w. o BRrKS. sss Third Ave
n. Minneapolis MiEn-. Jan 9. 100
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
orI, sI. $50 nenxrr hal K.n..s CIV

For double berth in Pullman ordinary
sleeping car on train leaving Denver over
Union Paciflca at 1855 y. m daily. arrtv-
ing Kansas City 7:s5 following morning.
Ticket Office. 81 18th street Denver.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

II you wish to have beautiful, cloal
white clothes. use Russ Bleaching Biua
the famous bag blue
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAT.
Take LAXATIVE BRoMo QUisISK TABLETS. An
druggists refund the money II IL fails to cure
l.. W. Groves signature is on the box 2sc-
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

We shall breathe freer after the eleS
tion Is over. The air Will be better afte
the campaign cigars are all burned.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

''If I walk backward down the cellar
stairs In the dark I'll see my future hus-
band" Nonsense: you'll be more likely
to see our family surgeon"
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

From Italy come rumors that Mrs.
Van Rensselaer, Cruger is engaged 10
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

Man Is never too old to learn" That 3
SO: but he has to be pretty old before he
will admit it
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

A. . dressing and color ressorer. PAxxEn's Han
BAI.sAn never falls TO aafisfy-
AIxpKscoass. the best for iscsa-
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

Charity is ability to put yourself in the
other mans place without thinking you
would have done better.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
The OnlH Line

That has two distinct routes to Chicago
Is the Union Pacific We can ticket you
either via Omaha, or via Kansas City.
and give you the best to be had in quick
time. cq1toment and train service Tick
et once. SS1 18th street. Denver.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

IL IL easy for Sir Thomas Upton I
build yachts. All he has to do is TO charg
them to his advertising account.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

Tom. you are terribly lazy" NO.
I'm not lazy at all; l simply don't like
to work.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

ArA W1nsl0W's Soothing NyfUr.
~ ehfdren teefhing. snfens the gums, reduces n
1amnssioa. aays pain. wind cole nc boes1a
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

Primlsy's California Fruit Gum contains
the most delicious qualities OF western
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

Countess Quadt is daughter of Sig
nor Martino. the Italian ambassador
to Denmark.
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

CArter's Ink Is Just As cheap as poor ink and
y The best Ink made. Always uso Carter'A
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03

tive been over TO see Jones: isn't he
IN awful talkerr' Isn't he, tHouehi
oay. bow did you got awsyr
La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-04-24
Will of the Late r. II. Keck.

The will of the late Philip II. Keck
is being read this afternoon at his
former home in West Morgan1own.
The executors named In the will are
Columbus Long and George w John
son. Hon. Jos. Moreland is the at
torney named in the instrument.
The provisions Of the will have not
yet been made public but it is under
stood that Mrs. Keck is to have the
land lying north of the Fairmont pike
and three hundred dollars year dur
ing her life The land lying TO the
south is to be held in trust for twenty
years for the children of L. V Keek
and julius Keck the latter deceased.
The will will be probated at once
after the reading,
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-04-24
The Minister's Learned Comments.

Judge Okey johnson is the pnta-
tive author of the following learned
sermonet Of certain eminent West
Virginia colored divine However
the Judge declares that it is yer
batim excerpt from the homily:
"Brudern and sistas, | brings you
good news from the Souf. Three
niggers have scaped linehin:
de promptness and perspicuity
wild which de colerd poperlation is
introproduced inter de mystic hens
10th is appallin even indeed to the
uncultiyated minel
..Jestice. could never stretch a
pint, but she stretched us. For it
has been neck or nothing wild us
eber sence de Fermentation Mocula-
ton But now through de good
Lord we now see de evening of hope
risin on de mornin OF despair Three
niggas have scaped linchin. An how
did dem coons scape? Because dey
wuz hanged by dew abscess of de
law in consequence of Gle instruman-
tality of de shureff. Pour some cold
water down dat coons back what's a
shakin, and take up a collection
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-04-24
DEWEY DIDN'T SAY DAMN.
Admiral Nails Another of Numerous
Lies About Him.

WASHINGTON April LIN reply
to letter from Editor Hamilton of
the Democrat, Hamilton, o., relative
to a paragraph which has been going
the rounds Of the newspapers, Admir-
al Dewey to-day sent the following
communication:
dear Sir: / am in receipt OF your
letter of 18th, asking II / am correct
ly represented as saying; well, III
tell you what Democrat is: In time
Of war Democrat is damned
traitor: in time Of peace he is damn
ed fool" In reply | have to state
that this is one Of the thousands OF
lies uttered concerning me. / never
said or thought such a thing as the
foregoing statement as credited to me.
/ have very fond remembrances OF
housands and tens Of thousands OF
'sWar Democrats" whom | knew and
who were some If the best fighters
this country ever say.
aGEOEGE DEWEY
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-04-24
Died.

CoBURN-James Harvey Cobarn a
well known citizen Of Fayette county,
Pa, died on Sunday April END 1900
IN the 18th year of his age. Mr.. Coburn
was born near kingwood, w Va, on
August 10. 1928, being Il son Of Capt.
James and Sarah Moody Coburn
Captain Coburn was an officer in the
war Of 1872 aud was prominent bus
mess man OF Preston county. Harvey
Coburn came to Fayette county before
the war, and on October l, 1850 he
married Miss Susan Jefferies, daugh-
ter of Nathan Jetferies. To them
were born six children, three of whom
with Mrs. Cobnrn, survive: Mary,
wife OF William g. Freeman OF Cadiz,
o., Willard f. and Samuel H. Miss
Sarah died few years ago: the other
two died young.
Mr.. Coburn served ia Battery X,
18th Heavy Artillery, and served I'M
TIL he was injured at Fort Ethan AL
len In May, 1864, when he was dis
abled from further service. Deceas-
ed was a member Of the M. f.. church
and respected citizen.