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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-08
TOLD by FOOTPRINTS.
TeII-TaIe Shoes Worn by Man in q
Searching Party.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
1.-The part played by footprints in the
frightful tragedy near Biloxi reminds me-"
said a New Orleans railroad man. of q
most remarkable affair which happened q
good many years ago in South Georgia.
The keeper Of a little store near the Flor
ida line was murdered one night and The
place set on fire. Several negroes were
suspected and the whole countryside turn
cd out to search for evidence. In the year
of the burned store was marshy place.
in which the footprints of tho murderer
were plainly dlscernible. showing that lie
had worn pair of heavy brogans, the
right heel OF which seemed to have been
split in very peculiar manner directly
across the middle.
Among the searchers was a well-to-do
young farmer and as soon as he saw the
footprints he was Mortified to recognize
the marks Of his own shoes which he had
on at that every moment The split heel
was the result of a chance blow with an
ak while cutting wood, and the impression
ian the marshy soil was absolutely unmis-
taxable The CROWD was worked up 10 a
pitch bordering on frenzy. and realizing
his extremely critical position. the young
man hau presence enough % Hlliu 10 make
some excuse and slip away lie went
straight home, put on another pair OF
shoes, hid the old ones and rejoined the
party
Two or three days later the crime was
traced by certain circumstantial evidence
to a negro who worked on his farm. The
fellow broke down and confessed and Incl
dentally cleared up the mystery on the
night OF the murder. according TO his
story he had noticed the brogans on the
porch of the farm house. and appropriated
them. intending at the time TO merely rob
the store and fly the country After kill
ing the storekeeper he changed his plans
and came home thinking to divert suspi-
clon by remaining quietly at work. Con-
sequently he returned the shoes where he
found them.
after he had made this confession the
farmer told his own story and produced
the tell-tale footgear. Heaven only knows
what might have happened had he been
caught with them on his feet the first day
Of the search
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-08

one of our most reliable carriers in the
Wyoming district And he is only one
of our army of mail carriers. Railroads!
Why. man alive, some of our letters go a
full thousand miles beyond any railroad.
Does il pay? OF course, not. But the per-
lection of a service cannot stop 90 IN
quire if it pays. 1t sometimes costs us
5000 to deliver a letter. with a 2-cent
STAMP. in North Dakota, and you can
safely add a hundred dollars more TO the
cost of of a delivery in Alaska"
With that, the inspector led me to a
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-08

hides were taken from The buffaloes, and
only half Of those removed were preserv-
ed. "One year" said he three carloads
of buffalo hides were taken 10 Bismarck
10 be transported East on the Northern
Pacific. The h d s were so badly preserv-
ed that the railroad refused to taks
them as freight, and they were thrown
into the river. The greatest value from
$50 600 buffaloes was taken by the bone
collector, the railroads which carried
them, and Charles Milwaukee Sivyer."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-08
BUFFALO BONES ny THOUSANDS.
A Collector Describes How They
Were Gathered and Utilized.
From the milwaukee, Sentinel.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Charles Milwaukee Sivyer read paper
before the Old Set lers' Club. In which he
described his operations in North Dakota
and Montana between 1856 and 1888, col
lecting buffalo bones for the market. Mr..
slvyer was known as the Bone King"
IN those regions, and employed half
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-08

village of a thousand inhabitants. among
whom he has four letters to distribute"
"Bul Mr.. Brown" I ventured TO re-
mark. "!cayiug aside all question OF eN-
pensc. Isn't there constant danger to the
carriers from Wild beasts or wilder In
dams"
,You are right 20 call the Indians
u,nder than beasts" replied the inspec-
Tor "for. while / don't recall any OF our
riders falling prey TO savage animals, ev-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-08
wr SHOW THE W.RL0
" OUR POSTAL SYSTEM.
DISPLAY IN THAT LINE At
.CTs ATTENTION At PARIS.

europeans Are Amazed by the Way
no Handle Letters-It Would Take
,t.itor TO tie Great Show 5000
uours 10 see 1t All, But the Amer
- Postal Exhibit Is One of the
,,,st Interesting Features.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-08

roll of maps hanging from one OF the
n,,1ls That's where the geography came
tn and the statistics, too; and the signln-
.narce Of the figure wns startling. We
Sannened TO pull down map covering
oregon. and Long-Armed Eugene's state;
II,,.orninp A mack dotted line showed
tho RAILROADS; black curved line che ri
u,oelslv mail service; a blue line the bi-
weekly delivery and yellow line tray
ersed the region where humanity only
sets It's letters once u weeks
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-08
PeriIs of Our Letter Carriers.

Mr.. Brown pointed over his shoulder
at the long-hafred man on the horse, and
then. running his thumbnail along the
map marked out the course Of the scout
looking postman. Fifty miles to here;
sixteen miles to this point; an eight-mile
ride up the mountain to this place called
Venoshka, and then thirty-one-mile
journey on a straight line 20 the end OF
the route. That makes just 105 miles that
some poor fellow had to do twice week.
When he gets there he probably finds a
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-08

cry now and then one of them falls q
victim to ferocious red men,"
As he was saying this he led me to an
old leather pouch hanging near by, and
told me to read its story. The label de-
scribed the murder of mail-carrier by
a tribe of Sioux, who cut the bag open,
rihed its contents, and then left 1t floating
in a pool of the victims blood. The pouch
is O dismal reminder of the perils encoun-
tered by faithful men who, far from civil
ization, contribute their daily share TO
make the postal service of the United
States the most complete and extensive
in the world.
From the od-siained mail bag
turned to collection of new pouches
showing the very latest devices for pre-
serving letters from being moistened or
crumpled, and the latest thing in the way
Of locks making theft by an employe
almost an impossibihty. And no one of
these pouches, equipped with every mod
ern convenience | read the words Porto
Rican Service" Verify, the world moves.
Nine years ago in San Juan de Porto
Rico l strolled through the dozen
of streets at noon, woke the postmaster
from his siesta and induced HIM to look
for letter for me in the unsorted mail
that small coored boy had brought from
the boat in a bandana handkerchief the
day before.
you see that perforated mail-pouch."
said Inspector Brown. well that is used
for carrying bees. Being ventilated, tho
honey-makers won't smother"
"BeesW | mumbed in wonderment.
Does the mail carry bees"
Yes" he replied, lin some sections OF
the country they are invariably shipped
from place to place through the post
office"
Then the inspector took me by the arm
and said, Here's something better worth
looking at"
The stamps and the Thief.
From an educational or philatelist
standpoint II was. II was collection OF
postage stamps, showing the consecutive
issues from the introduction of stamps in
the United States in 1S47. right down 10
the latest thing designed by the postal de-
partment. The collection, which IL val
ued at $4,000. is displayed in a series of
swinging glass-covered frames attached to
the wall, and opening out like the leaves
Of a book. Many OF the issues are obso-
lete. and some are historic. This is partic-
ularly true of a large sheet OF the two
cent Columbian issue. which possesses
exceptional value from the fact that IT
was the first struck off in the issue, as
Is attested by the signature of two high
government functionaries. This sheet Is
worth 5000 OF the stamps generally, the
denominations range all the way from one
cent to sixty dollars. The So $40, $40. &s,
so and $50 stamps are a curiosity 10 the
average person, because their use is chilly
restricted to auditing purposes in post
offices. and few Of these stamps can be
purchased at any price by a pereon not In
he employ Of tho government.
The rarlty OF this collection naturally
constitutes an enhancing attraction to
stamp collectors. II likewise exercises a
sometimes irresistible effect on the cupid
ity of some eccentric mortals. Consequent
~ the utmost care Is practiced IN the po-
lice service about the exhibit. This care,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-08

DIR. Jalap-Let me see your tongue,
please. Pauent-Oh, doctor, no tongue can
tell how badly / feeL-Iit-BltA
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-08
Tempters in Whit

The Ladies this "WITE WEEK. It wifi least be R
LETTER We break the silence
crash that wifi lend the indif
We launch couple Of flyers WHITE SF1l
WAISTS speculative ELK BRAND of HOWE MA
MUSLIN These of CONC
SION PRICES everything who comprehend exclu
excellence stylhes all specialt
ARE YOU LISTENING?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-22
FOREIGN.

The ear of Russia is quite i'll with
typhoid fever.
Emperor William outlined situation
in China in opening the German
Reichstag.
l.. W. Bates, the American engineer
has been asked to undertake the
widening Of the Suez Canal
1t is officially announced that the
prince and princess of Wales intend
to visit Belfast next April.
Mutiny in the Athens military prison
was queiled by troops, who killed eight
men and wounded several hundred.
The Spanish-American congress at
Madrid is discussing the questions of
transport, commerce, arbitration, lit
erature. and education.
Joseph II. Choate, the United States
ambassador to Great Britain, delivered
the inaugural lecture at the Philosoh-
zeal institution of Edinburg, taking as
his theme The Career and Character
of Abraham Lincoln.
The cars attack of influenza has
developed into typhoid fever. Czaro-
witch Michael, heir to throne, left
Copenhagen for Russia
Thirteen persons were killed and 10
others injured seriously in a fire
damp explosion in the Pluto coal mine
at Wiosa, near Brux, Germany
Thirteen persons were killed and
nineteen others injured seriously in a
fire damp explosion in the Pluto coal
mine, at Wiosa, near Brux, Germany.
Reports from the Viborg district
say the exodus of Firms to the United
States has ceased and that the emf
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-22

the dry and in the sweet wine districts
had a profitable year.
The fourteenth annual session of
the southern conference of the Uni
tartan Church came to a close at
Atlanta. Rev. Frank NJ. Hartwell
was elected to succeed himself as
president; F. G. Bromberg of Mobile,
vice president, and Rev. w. G..
Mumm, of Louisville, KY, treasurer.
A set Of claims which will be refer
red to congress are those arising
! from the detention and isolation of
japanese subjects in connection with
the bubonic plague last summer in
San Francisco, and the claims of
japanese citizens for damages sus-
tanned through the action Of the
| Hawaii authorities.
Gov Roosevelt notified Wheeler H.
Peckham and J. S. Hayes, attorneys
for the New York World in the
charges against Mayor Van Wyck in
/ the ice trust matter, that they must
present their answer to the attorney
generals findings with their evidence,
or he will decide the case on its
merits as it stands.
General Macarthur telegraphs the
war department that the transports
Grant and Port Albert have arrived at
Manila. The Grant sailed from San
Francisco on October Is, with six of
ficers and 615 men, recruits, hospital
corps and signal corps men. The
Port Albert sailed from Seattle on
September %, with animals and
forage.
The president will submit to con
gress at the approaching session the
claims for indemnification and fol
other substantial recompense of the
British cable corporation which suf
fered as a result of the American
occupation of the Philippines. The
corporation claims damages for the
interruption of their cable business
by the American forces
The forest fire has destroyed Brook
ings mill in Fredalbra park, San
Bernardino, Cal, and burned over
100000 feet of lumber. The flames
could be plainly seen 60 miles away
Brookings mill is the largest in south
ern California, and gave employment
to ESQ men. The DANCE done by the
fire is estimated at 100000. The
mill was owned by Michigan men.
Mrs. Zerelda James, widow oil
Jesse James, the noted southwestern
bandit, died at her home in Kansas
City. Mrs. James was a Miss Mimms
and was married to James at Kearney
Mo-, in 1874. They had one son
Jesse, Jr., who is now in business in
Kansas City. Mrs. James was with
her husband when he was killed BY
Bob Ford, one of the bandits former
companions, near st. Joseph, in April
1881
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-22
POLITICAL.

The reichstag reelected Count Won
BalIestrom president of that body by
26S votes out of 294 cast.
The attorney general of Iowa COM
menting on the flaw in the election
law. says the intent of the trainers
will be regarded
Senator Thurston thinks congress
has power to reduce representation
and electoral votes of southern states
that have disfranchised the negro.
Congressman Cannon made formal
declaration of his candidacy for the
United States senate from Illinois.
Vespasian Warner is also in the field
tentatively.
Late returns on the congressional
vote in Utah have brought the ma
iority of Sutherland. republican, over
Kind, democrat, down to $50. The
vote has not yet been officially de-
clared
Official election returns for Illinois
are; Total for president, 1,121, 469;
Mckinley, 594,731; Bryan, 1926;
McKinley's plurality, 95,515. For gov
ernor-Yates, SCOOPS; Alschuler, 516,-
405; Yates plurality, 63,61S.
Brig.-Gen. James F. Smith of San
Francisco has been appointed collector
of customs at Manila. Gen. Smith,
who went to the Philippines as colonel
of the first California volunteers. is
now governor of the Island of Negroes.
John w. Yerkes, late republican can
didate for governor of Kentucky and
who recently resigned his position as
collector of internal revenue, called on
the commissioner of internal revenue
today. He says he has abandoned all
idea of contesting Gov. Beckham's
election. He probably will be reap.
pointed to his old position.
The Martin Engel association, the
Tammany Hall organization of the
eighth assembly district. has formally
voted to offer William J. Bryan hand
some fee to come to New York and
take charge of the legal defense of the
district captains of the eighth assem-
bly, district, indicted for alleged viola
tions of the election laws
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-22
The BeSt-loVed Woman.

The world loves a true and noble
woman more than the greatest beauty
that ever lived or the most brilliant
intellect. Within the memory of
every one there are noble, womanly
lives, which have been dearer and bet
ter to us than the most brilliant wo-
men of history. Not for the beauty CT
Helen of Troy or a Cleopatra, nor FOR
the brilliancy of George Sand or a
Joan of Arc would we sacrifice these
lives. Indeed, if we had to choose be-
tween one or the other, we would wipe
from the slate of history those historic
characters rather than destroy the
sacred influences of a noble mother,
sister or wife which have shaped and
formed our careers.-A. S. Atkinson,
M. D., in Home Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-22
Madame Bonaparte's Scorn.

Writing from the romance of Eliza.
beth Patterson and Jerome Bonaparte
after the annulment of their marriage
by Napoleon I, William Perrine, in the
Ladies' Home Journal, says that
toward her expatriated husband
Elizabeth exhibited nothing but con-
tempt which in part she expressed for
all Bonapartes, whom she condemned
as mean family" excepting always
the one wh) had ruthlessly torn Jer-
ONE from her. But Of Napoleon she
never ceased to speak reverently as a
man of genius whose relatives were
unworthy Of the blood of the brilliant
conqueror. She refused to accept
from her husband as King Of West
phalia the title of Princess Schmalcal.
den and dover of two hundred thous.
and francs, and when Jerome pro-
Tessed not to understand why she re-
Jected his offer and yet allowed a small
er pension to be bestowed upon her by
his brother, the Emperor, she sarcasti-
caily exclaimed, I prefer to hide under
an eagles wing rather than hang from
the neck Of a gosling.'
Again Jerome exposed himself to
her sneering reproach when, having
proposed that she might have home
in Westphslia, she sent back the re-
ply, Your kingdom is large, but not
large enough for two Queens 1t was
only once that the disunited couple
saw each other again, and then 10
word passed between them. One day
Jerome was walking with his new wife
in the gallery of the P.Cti Palace. at
Florence. when Madame Bonaparte
came upon the scene. When he recog-
nized her Jerome hurriedly whispered
to his Catherine, as Elizabeth silently
walked on, That lady is my former
wife He took care not to tarry in the
gallery, and the next morning left the
city"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-22
Sufficient Unto the Day.

Let not the heart a future grievance
borrow,
Nor DER our path one faintest
shadow lay;
Let not the clouds which may arise to
morrow
Obscure the fairer sunshine of today
Today is ours-the past has passed
forever,
It's joys and griefs alike are ours nc
more;
The future lies beyond Times silent
river.
A dim and distant and untrodden
shore.
The worlds so fair, and life SO grand,
that living
Should one sweet hymn of purest
rapture be;
From Natures hand, so bounteous in
her giving,
The fullness ours, to reap unceasing-
ly;
And ours the bliss, through Hopes en-
chanting vision,
Fen darkened skies to view with
promise rare;
To grasp at joys, though Phoenix-like
they've risen
From out the ashes of a past despair.
AS to the day, its burden or it's sorrow,
So is our strength by Love all-wise
decreed;
Beyond the trust which looketh to the
morrow
Not ours the striving, nor is ours
the need.
He knoweth best-the sowing and the
reaping-
Who left the power of will unfet-
tered, free;
The great, kind God, who holds within
his keeping
Each day and hour through all
eternity.
H2r1owe in Woman's Home
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-22
NEGRO
BURNED
Colorado Mob Takes
Dreadful Vengeance
OH Murderer.
No Resistance Made by
Sheriff Who Is
Overcome.
Criminal Taken Beside
Track and Made TO
Pay Penalty.

Limon, Col, Nov. Unclaimed to a
railroad rail set firmly in the ground
on the exact spot where his fiendish
crime was committed, Preston Porter
last evening paid the death penalty for
his deed. 1t was 6:23 when the father
of the murdered girl touched the match
to the fuel which had been piled around
the negro, and twenty minutes later
the last convulsive shudder told that
life was extinct. What agony the
doomed boy suffered while the flames
shriveled up his flesh could only be
guessed from the terrible contortions
of his face and the cries he gave from
time to time.
The eXecutioners, who numbered
about 800 citizens of Lincoln county,
had rot the least semblance of an ordi-
nary mob. Their every act was DELHI
crate during all the preparations as
we'll as throughout the sufferings of
the negro, and hardly an unnecessary
word was spoken. Grimly they stood
in a circle about the fire until the body
was entirely consumed, then quietly
took their way back to Limon, from
whence they departed for their homes
shortly afterward. Porter did not
seem to realize the awful punishment
he was destined to undergo.
For more than an hour, while pre-
parations for the execution were in
progress, he stood mute and sullen
among the avengers. When every
thing was ready he walked to the
stake with a firm step, pausing as he
reached the circle of broken boards,
to kneel in prayer. He was allowed
to take his time. He arose, placed
his back to the iron stake, and half
dozen men wound the chains about
his body and limbs. Kerosene oil
was applied to the wood, and after a
brief pause Richard w. Frost, the
father Of little Louise Frost, whose
cruelty mutilated body was found a
week ago on that very spot, applied
! the match.
The train bearing the negro in Gus
tody of Sheriff Freeman and his dep
uties, arrived at Limon at 8 As. The
cars were crowded with newspaper
reporters and people who were curl
Gus to see the negro executed. R. w.
Frost, the murdered girls father,
was one of the passengers. When the
train stopped, sixteen men who had
been elected by vigilance committee
entered the train, and demanded the
prisoner from the sheriff The officer
protested in the name of the law but
the protests were disregarded One
man carried rope, one end of which
had been formed into a hangman's
moose. This was slipped over the ne
gro's neck. 1t was at first announced
the negro was to be executed by
hanging. 1t was finally decided to
leave the method of death to the out
ragged father. He decided upon
burning at the stake.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-22
Hydrogen SoIidified

Professor Dewar's solidfication of
hydrogen is the conclusion of long
campaign in the course of which all
the heavier gases have been first
liquefed and then solidifed. At the
Royal Institution, London, last Friday
the professor surroundedsa tube con-
tanning liquid air, and then by produc-
ing with a pump vacuum in the
hydrogen tube he caused the hydrogen
to freeze into a white opaque solid.
This solid has none of the metallic
properties that chemical theory has
long attributed to hydrogen. The
hydrogen atom is the lightest of atoms
and the gas becomes solidified at a
temperature only few degrees above
the absolute zero. The utility of solid
hydrogen is at present confined to the
laboratory. 1t will facilitate the solidi-
fication Of oxygen and the separation
Of mixed gases. A few years ago
solid carbonic acid gas was one of the
wonders of the laboratory. Such
gases as n trogen, oxygen and hydro
gen were thought to be hopelessly case.
Gus. There was theory that their
qualification was impossible because
their freezing point was too near the
absolute zero. But by helping the
freezing process on the one hand by
compression and on the other by
evaporation the difficulty has been sur.
mounted. Our age knows much more
about the conduct of the atom at very
high and very low temperatures than
was known so years ago. Properties
it is found, change greatly with tenn
perature. Still we don't quite know
how to change those of lead into those
Of gold.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-22
No Slave of Custom.

you will not refuse my last re-
quest" pleaded the condemned crimi
nal
NO" replied the jaiIer What is
it?'
IT want to be photographed in the
act of eating my last meal, so that
when it is written of me, On the
morning of his execution day he ate a
hearty breakfast of ham and eggs
coffee, and fried potatoes the proof
will be at hand to show that I am not
the base slave of custom!"
His request was granted. and the
hardened wretch, implacable to the
last, made his farewell breakfast OF
steak and onions.-London King.