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, 1900-11-29
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EXCITES THE FRENCH

Paris, Nov. 24.-'Nive Kruger and
Down with the English rang yester.
day from the threats of thousands OF
people at the stations along the route
from Marseilles to Dion. President
Kruger's journey was IL grand va.
ton. Multitudes frenzied with enthus-
iasm cheered the great Boer leader at
every stopping place.
In spite of every precaution by the
French government, the visit of Pres
ident Kruger has already taken on
grave political Importance. The anti.
English feeling is rapidly approaching
the danger point The nation has been
stirred to its ~profundest depths, and
the responsible heads of the govern
ment may find themselves utterly up-
able to withstand the demands of an
excited people.
Especially significant is the stand
that will be taken by the army. French
officers mingled with the crowds and
Joined in the cheering.
Everything depends upon the events
in the French capital. All Europe
awaits the result of the demonstration
President Kruger will arrive in Paris
in the morning, and probably the scenes
of yesterday. will be re-enacted in far
greater magnitude. Preparations have
been made by the police to prevent any
demonstrations hostile TO England. but
1t is doubtful If the crowds can be con
trolled.
, 1900-11-29
Il
ANSWER

Denver, Colo. Nov. 26.-The dailies
this morning publish the answer of
Sheriff Freeman of Lincoln county, to
the letter of District Attorney McAlliS-
ter asking him 10 arrest the lynchers of
John Porter. In his answer, Sheriff
Fireman says:
Under the laws of this state Meth
neither rape nor murder is punishable
by death. nor are rape and murder
combined punishable by death under
the law, and yet every man of common
sense knows who was nj all familiar
with the horrible particulars of the
rape of Louise Frost and her tiendish
murder. tlat the citizens of Lincoln
county would not wait for the slow
processes of the law and the wholly in
adequate punishment that would come
as II result of Il conviction under the
law.
The men who took Preston Porter
from my custody We're citizens of Lin
coin county and personally known to
you and to other officials of the district
and state. The lodging of informations
against them and the trial of them for
lynchinG the prisoner would be wholly
fruitless. and would impose upon the
county an enormous expense without
any beneficial results whatsoever.
81 have no desire to avoid any re
spOnsibility, but do not intend to make
n grandstnnd play in order to set my
self right in the eyes of yourself or
Governor Thomas, or those citizens
who We're pleased To meet in Denver
and pass resolutions after the lynching
had taken place.
"If thai meeting of preachers and
lawyers, politicians and sentimentalists
mt Coliseum hall had been held before
the lynching the %lynching might have
probably been deferred for II period of
ten or twelve days. You certainly
know that no jury could be impaneled
in Lincoln county, or by change OF
venue in Douglass county, I'll Paso
county, kit Carson county. or Teller
county, which would convict any one
under any conceivable charge that
might he brought against him of con
plicity in this lynchingi'
, 1900-11-29
BISHOP POTTER ANNOUNCES
A PLAN TO REDEEM NEW YORK

must have not only vigilance but per
sistence.
I'VE shall not redeem New York, men
and brethren. by emotions; we shall
not redeem it by denunciation; we
shall not redeem it by pessimistic TEN
per that wraps its garment aroun II
and turns its back upon it. There are
burning with zeal and enthusiasm II
a high purpose of sacrifice in this great
city to-day great multitudes of men
and women. They are of different re-
~ligions; they must forget that. They are
of different nationalities; they must
forget that. They are of different po-
litical associations, most of all. they
must forget that. And If, having
reached that point, we could find three
or five men whom all trusted and be
lieved in There are hundreds of them,
and say to these three or five men:
Now, then, tell us what you want us
to do, where you wan me to stand,
what relation do you want our party,
our church, our organization TO bear
to the betterment of New York. We
will trust your judgment; we will fol
low your lead. and the work is done.
Next to that in this service of enlight,
ened soul we want v%igilence."
, 1900-11-29
PEARY'S DASH FOR THE POLE
MAY PROVE SUCCESSFUL

"Aftcr resting and feeding the dogs
n few days longer / shall go on and the
other Eskimos will remain mt b fort
hunting. / am in good condition and the
Journey shows me that | am myself
again. If / do my work this spring
shall come back and hasten down 10
meet the ship and turn back with her.
| hope to write again by natives which
| shall send back from some point up
the Greenland coast. DIR. Didnick
wishes 80 he remembered"
The second extract follows:
Cape D'Urville, Grinnell Land.
March 10, 1901 write this note on
the chance of Stein and DR.. Kahn
reaching Upusauk by way of Kolville
bay. The fall and winter passed cont
fortably at Etah, without even a days
indisposition on my part. / have hus-
banded myself carefully. My feet
have given me very little trouble and
now l feel that. L am myself again. l
nm now Mt the Windward's winter
quarters with the rear division. Mott
and the doctor are ahead with two 9th
err divisions. All but n few of the ma
tivcs will return Mt once from there,
leaving n few with me. l shall push
on from Conger without delay. per
hnps by way of the Greenland coast. ]
shall strain every nerve and, God will
ing. shall do my work this spring, that
| may come back this summer. / send
duplicate of this to Cape York for Il
whalpr."
, 1900-11-29

New York. Nov. 2G.-Herbert l..
Bridgman. secretary of he Peary Arc
tic Club, tonight gave out extracts
from letters sent by Lieutenant Peary.
the Arctic explorer, to his wife. She
did not receive them. having started
to rejoin her husband last August,
without his knowledge. She was at
Disco, Greenland, on August Goth.
The letters of Peary's We're carried
by natives to the camp of the Stein
party, at Cape Sabine. and thence CON
veyed to Cape York by DIR. Kahn, who
boarded the steam whaler Eclipse on
June 9th and was landed by her at
Dundee. Scotland. on the 9th instant.
Following are the letter extracts fur
nished by Mr.. Bridgman:
Fort Congo. Lady Franklin Bay,
March 81. 19OO-Just n line to go
down to n whaler by returning natives.
l arrived here mt midnight on the 18th,
t~wenty-four days from Etah. Six and
one-half days of this time we were held
in camp by heavy wind storms. The
doctor and Hensen each left Etah with
natives before we arrived here. The
journey was a tedious one owing to the
storms. but not an uncomfortable one
for me. \ number of dogs died on the
way, but | had an ample number for
the work ahead. Twenty-one musk
oxen We're killed in sight of the fort
the day before ! arrived; we have an
abundant supply of fresh meat.
, 1900-11-29
POWERS EMPLOY
DLATORY TACTICS in CHINA

uated by the single purpose of ending
the present unsatisfactory conditions
the celestial empire.
Yet the fact remains that at least
two powers have been pursuing at re,
kin the most obstructive tactics ana
have evidently favored a policy ue-
signed to provoke the Chlnese 10
armed resistance.
An important point about these latest
declarations is that the powers express
Iy state that they desire such a solu-
ton of the Chinese troubles as can ue
adopted by any imperial governments
without danger to its safety.
Minister Conger Is directed TO urge
upon bis colleagues the necessity OF
agreeing upon demands which Will be
reasonably certain of acceptance by
the Chinese. The President and Secre.
tary Hay appreciate the weakness OF
the imperial government ana uo no'
want the shadow of imperial authority
to disappear as a result of the macnl
nations of powerful princes ana OIL
Gals.
The suggestion for n settlement OF
the question by an international con
ference, to be participated in by repre-,
s~entatives of the powers and 10 be held
in some European capital, has oeen re
yiyed, but among conservative ofhclals
II is believed hat an even better pan
would be the policy of referring 'he
matter to The Hague court of arpltra'
ten.
, 1900-11-29

Washington, Nov. 24.-Assurances Oh
a particularly gatifying and important
character, declaring their pupose to act
co%njointly and in harmony TO effect a
prompt settlement of the Chinese ques-
ton. We're to-day given the United
States by Russia, Germany, Great Bril-
tain. France and Japan. These declar-
atoms of the five powers are due to the
diplomacy of the President and Secre-
tary Hay.
Developments in Pekin had shown
~conclusively that one of the ministers
were alive to the Importance of formu-
lating demands with which the Chinese
government could comply. PROPOSE
tons We're being made, especially by
representatives of the European pow
ers, whose policies We're regarded with
suspicion. the adoption of which could
only result in rejection by the Chinese
government and the resumption of hos
%tilities.
1t was therefore decided that in the
interest of n prompt settlement it was
desirable to appeal to the powers di-
rect. An Identical note was therefore
addressed to the interested govern
ments in Europe and Japan II the
correspondence which followed cul-
minated in the assurances referred to.
These assurances repeat the declara-
lions which made connection with the
endorsement of the Anglo-German
agreement and would seem on thelT
face to show hat the powers are act
, 1900-11-29
LIVE
STOCK

Denver. Colo. Nov. 2G.-A state con
vention of all of the live stock organ
iZations and stock growers of the state
has been called. to meet in Denver,
December 18th, 18th and 10Th, for the
purpose of passing upon and recon-
mcnding needed Legislation in the in
terest of the stock industry TO the Leg
islature, and the repeal of laws that
are considered useless or insufficient.
The call is signed by several of the
largest live stock associations of The
state, and Senator l.. NJ. Ammons of
Douglas county has bcen appointed to
act as temporary chairman ana l.. X.
Watkins of ArapahOe county rs tenn
porary secretary. Delegates will be
appOrtioncd one mt large from each live
stock organization and m additional
for each 5000 head of stock represent
ed by members of the organization.
County commissioners of all counties
in which there are no live stock asso-
Citations may appoint three delegates.
Live stock companies owning 5000
head of stock may send one delegate,
and the. governor may appoint three
delegates at large, to be men engaged
in stock business.
The convention Will ask the LeGisla-
turc to make Il disposition of the "es-
tray" fund, for n disposition of money
realized from the tax on brands, n new
law regarding payment by railroads
for stock killed, amendments TO the
bounty law for predatory animals, the
removal Of the brand inspection de
partment from politics, amendments TO
laws regarding inspection for brands
and recording of brands, and amend
ing the laws regarding veterinary san
itary inspection.
, 1900-11-29

Washington, Nov. 26.-David Il. Day,
chief of the division of mining and min
eral sources of the United States geo
logical survey, has just completed the
annual summary of the minera pro
duction of the United States from 1890
to 1899 inclusive.
The total value of all the minerals
produced during the last calendar year
amounted to SSI6.00S, 046, against S69T,-
$50, 100 in 1889, an increase of S2TS,-
1885, 90. or practically forty per cent.
This increase was the o notable
in the history of the mineral industry.
The previous largest increase was from
1884 to 1895. when the value advanced
eighteen per cent.
The production from 1890 TO 1898 has
exceeded SG00,0O0,OOO in every year eX-
cept two, the panic years of 1893 and
1894. The average yearly production
from 1890 TO 1895 inclusive was $685.
2S6,51O, making the production in 1899
1857. 722,436. or iifty-eight per cent. In
excess of the average for that period.
The greatest increase in 1899 was ii
the value of the pig iron produC which
increased to S245, 1T2,65I, or about ITO
per cent. over 1898. The enormous in
crease was due to the phenomenal de
mand and high prices.
The increase in coal production added
over SIS, 100000. or twenty-three per
cent. to the 1898 value. Copper in
creased nearly G0,OO0,0oO pounds in
quantity, and over S42.O0 600 in value,
, 1900-11-29
BIG INCREASE IN THE MINERAL
OUTPUT OF THE UNITED STATES

the ruling prices being higher than
for n number of years past.
Crude petroleum advanced nearly
500, 800. 600, or about furyt-five per
cent, due principally 10 advanced
prices. the production increasing less
than four per cent. The value of the
natural gas consumed in 1899 is placed
at n little over S20.OO0,OOO, against S15,-
100000 due entirely to the higher prices
charged.
An increase of about ten per cent,
or from SG4, 463, 600 in 1890 to ST. ,o13,-
400 in 1898. is shown in gold produc-
ton. The production of silver showed
n very small increase.
Lead production decreased six per
cent, but increased over S2.OOO,OOo IN
value. Spelter increased to 11o,4Os
short tons. valued at S14. T31,92O.
The building stone industry Increased
nearly SS.O0O,O00. The total value oil
the metallic product in 1899 was S02I,-
21S,Si, an Increase of tifty-four per
cent. N~on-inetallic products increased
twenty-seven per cent. to S4fI. I9O,S64
Every wear since 1881 TO 1895 in
elusive the value of h nOn-metailiC
production has exceeded the metallic,
but in 1899 the metallic exceeded by
S79.5OO.OOO. A change of nearly 500
100000 occurred in the relative values
between 1898 and 1899.
Unprecedented activity and advanced
values. the report, says, were shown
in nearly every branch of the mining
industry during 1890.
, 1900-11-29

MIS- NJ. "A. lncutrO, minneapolis, Mlnu<
Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, o.
Gentlemen-"As a remedy for ca
tarrh l can cheerfully recommend Pc
runa. l have been troubled with
chronic catarrh for over six years. 1
had tried several remedies without re-
lief. A lodge friend advised me to try
Peruna, and l began to use it faith
fully before each neal. Since her 1
have always kept it in the house. 1
am now in better health than l have
been in owe twenty years, and l feel
sure my catarrh is permanently
cured"
Peruna cures catarrh wherever To-
Gated. AS soon as Peruna removes
systemic catarrh the digestion becomes
good, nerves strong, and trouble van
ishes. Peruna strengthens weak
nerves, not by temporarily stimu-
lating them, but by removing the
cause of weak nerves-systemic ca
tarrh. This is the only cure that
lasts. Remove the cause; nature will
do the rest. Peruna removes the cause.
Address Tho Pernna Medicine Com.
pany, Columbus, Ohio, for a book
treating of Cafarrh In its different
phases and stages, also a book en-.
titled "Heaifh and Beauty" written
especially for
, 1900-11-29
BIG FLOODS In
THE OHIO VALLEY

Cincinnati, Ohio. Nov. 26.-Floods
were reported all along the Ohio val,
ley last night. In almost the entire
Tuesday and almost continuously since
Friday.
While no lives are reported lost, the
damage To property is considerable,
The Licking river in Kentucky is
very high and has caused some damage
on the Ohio side 10y It's waters rushing
across the Ohio channel and sweeping
the Cincinnati landing. one of the
bridges over the Licking, connecting
COviugtOn and Newport. was swept
away. The lumber yards. mills and
shipping generally suffered great loss.
PittsbIUg. Pa. Nov. 25.-The Ohio
river Mt the dam Tonight is 81 feet
high and rising rapidly. by tomorrow
fourteen feet or more Is expected.
Five million bushels of coal will be
ehlpped to southern points. The Con
sUlidutcd Coal company has arranged
FOR every boat in the port. twenty-five
the boats coming up with the umptirs
will be returned ms rapidly as possible,
until the 3u.uuu.uOu bushels now loaded
are ON their WAY South
ON the ohio side the Crest aud Lit
tie Miami rivers are both high. aud
floods along tlIv tributaries Of the Ohio
river are reported every where. The
ohio rose eight feet here during the
last twenty -four hours, aud Is sim rls
Ing rapldly.
, 1900-11-29

New York, Nov. PA dispatch to
the Journal and Advertiser from st.
Petersburg says:
The betrOthal of Prince Louis Napo-
leon BOnaparte TO Grand Duchess Hell
en-, daughter of the Grand Duke Nladi-
mir, is officially announced. 1t cannot
fail to strengthen the B%onapartist
cause in France and correspondingly
weaken the republican government.
Prince Louis, who has been serving
for the last fifteen years in the Russian
army, is a general of cavalry, at the
head of the crack regiment of the
Czarina's Lancers of the Guard. He
has all along been treated at the court
as IA member of the Russian imperial
family circle; and enjoys in n particu-
lar degree the friendship OF the Car.
, 1900-11-29

An employe has something at stake
besides his salary. He has chnracter.
There are manhood and womanhood in
volved, compared with which salary is
nothing. The way one does his work
enters into the very fiber of his char
acter. 1t is a matter of conscience, and
no one can afford to sell himself be
cause his salary is meagre.
Besides, If one puts his very best self
into every little thing he does-puts his
heart and conscience into it, and tries
30 see how much and not how little he
car give his employer-he will not be
likely to he undergrad very long, for he
will he advanced.-Success.
, 1900-11-29

New York. Nov. 24.-Bishop Henry
C. Potter yesterday delivered an adj
dress on God and the City" in st.
Paul's chapel, in which he suggested
the organization of a vigilance commit
tee of 2J,OOO reformers, to cleanse the
city of vice. He favored a central COM
mittee of three to five men, under
whose orders the public committee
should act. The bishop spoke in part
as follows:
In New York tomorrow there could
be organized a vigilance committee
such as was in San Francisco, of 25,-
600 men sworn to service for three
years and pledged by night and by day,
when their business and their oppor-
tunities gave them the freedom for 1t,
to see for themselves whether Il souls
had been smitten with the sorrow of
thai little victim of five years who was
picked up in the street the other day
in broad daylight and ravished by n
brute who had lived here. Would such
things be possible in a ~God-fearinS
community?
NO, men and brethren. not If you
and l had Il eyes open and kept them
open and stOod where God calls us TO
stand to-day. And then, finally, we
, 1900-11-29

Washington. Nov. 24.-The annual
report of Governor John b. Brady of
Alaska to the secretary of the interior
argos congressional legislation on the
extension of the general land laws to
Alaska, giving the natives the same le-
gal status as the whites. and the rep
resentation of Alaska by Il delegate in
Congress. The report says that at
Cape Nome everything and every
body is pell nell; there are several
claimants for each town lot. beach
claim and creek claim; fully $4,000
people waiting for the action of the
court there
, 1900-11-29

Albany, N. Y, Noy. Ex-Governor
Roosevelt last night gave out his decis-
ion in the application for the removal
from office Of Mayor Robert Van Wyck
of New York city. He declines to re
move The mayor on the ground that
while he vas undoubtedly a stockhold.
er in the American lee Company there
has been no proof that he wlllfully vlo-
lated the law f%orbidding a public orti-
Ger to be n stakeholder in a corporation
having dealings With his municipality.
, 1900-11-29

THE Bright Side of Humanity" a
new book by DIR. Edward Leigh Pell, is
said to be the first serious attempt that
has ever been made to present the
characteristic noble traits of all races.
In the preparation of his book DR.. Pell
examined one thousand works of travel
and although all of them set forth
with considerable detail the vices and
disagreeable traits of the people which
they profess to describe, only two hun
dred dwelt at II length on their viz
tues. To supply the compensatory
high lights in these dark pictures was
a happy thought and must nave been a
pleasant task.
, 1900-11-29
TRoPrc WEATHER HERE.
hermomete at Cyclorama Record Ma
Mia Temperature.

There will be summer weather at the
Battle of Manila exhibition building
during the coolest weather this winter.
On the Recommendation of Manager
James Hutton the board of directors
this week ordered changes in the pres
ent home of the cyclorama which will,
permit the temperature being main
tained like that of a tropical June day.
In freezing weather when women visit
the exposition there will be n of their
sex to look after their wraps, so they
will not be inconvenienced when GO
ing into the building with jackets and
capes from the cold streets.-Chicago
Chronicle.
, 1900-11-29

Little has been said. and probably
as little thought, of h beneficent
work done by the railroads in aiding
and promoting the measures set on
foot for the relief of stricken Calves
ton. Thousands OF refugees from that
city received free transportation to any
part of the country. and immense
quantities of supplies were rushed for
ward without charge. This ready re-
Spouse to the cry of human needs char
acterized all the great railway systems
of the country, the express, telegraph,
and telephone companies. The cash
value of the services thus rendered is
as impossible to estimate as the
amount of human suffering and misery
they helped to alleviate.
, 1900-11-29

Mcckcr, Colo, Nov. 2G.-Dcnvcr
News Special CummiSsioncr Johnson,
Warden Lyrlc aud Charles A. Mick
with about sixteen mon, Will leave
Mockrr to-day tu Investigate Indian
trouble. People who live where Iu-
dams are said tn he, claim that they
have lrft for their reservation three
weeks ago, but do not anticipate trou.
bic.
, 1900-11-29

A collection of political c%uriosities
would properly include President
Pierce's cabinet, the only one in the
history of the country which remained
unchanged during the four years of an
administration. 1t is remarkable that
the cabinet of Lord Salisbury. which
consisted of nineteen members. had not
suffered a single change in the five
years since the summer of 1895, when
the present government took office.
, 1900-11-29

There are few people who decline an
increase of salary. but the Rev. George
c. Lorimer, pastor OF the fremont Tenn
pie in Boston, is one of the few. His
congregation recently voted him an
increase of 81 900 a year, but he has
declined the increase. stating hat his
present salary of $1,000 a rear is
quite enough.
, 1900-11-29

A waggish stranger complained to
the police of Salina, Kansas, that a
resident of that town had ieeced him
out of a forty-dollar bill. After the
police had spent a day hunting for the
rogue, and finally located the suspected
man, 1t suddenly dawned upon the
sleuths that there are no forty-dollar
bills.
, 1900-11-29

One of the most peculiar suits at law
ever brought before any court is soon
TO be tried in Van Buren, county, Mich
igan, between two neighbors and old
friends. One of the men, H.. d. Burrell
of South Haven. keeps about sixty
colonies of bees. The other is "A peach
grower. A few months ago the latter
complained of the formers bees de-
stroying the early Crawford peaches,
claiming that the bees came into his
orchard in large numbers. bit holes in
the fruit and rendered it unmarketable
for which he demanded $500. Prof j.
NJ. Rankin of the agricultural college
and the entomologist of the Agricul-
tural department at Washington will
be called as expert witnesses by the
defence in a suit for damages.
, 1900-11-29

An official map of Vesuvius on a
scale of one in ten thousand has just
been issued, being the first since 1876.
A new plan in relief of the cone has
also been made.
, 1900-11-29

In some grottoes in Algeria French
explorers have recently discovered
stone implements mingled with the re-
mains of extinct animals belonging to
Quaternary times. Further explora-
tons indicate that during the age
when g%rottoes were inhabited the coast
of Algeria had a contiguration different
from that of today. Among the ami
mails associated with the ancient hui
man inhabitants of Algeria were the
rhinoceros, the h~ippopotamus, and
various species of ruminants.
, 1900-11-29

Berlin. Nov 24.-From II number of
postal cards and letters that have just
arrived from China, it is inferred that
Count Won Waldersee has forbidden
the German soldiers to write home re-
gnrdiug the incidents Of war.