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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
FILLING UP SIBERIA.
By This Method Russia Cuts Down Her
 Great Surplus.

Since the commencement of the Trans Siberian railway immigration to Siberia has developed with enormous strides, says the London Leader. Be- tween 1882 and 1885 only 65o,000 per sons entered the country, viz, 50,909 every year. h 1896 the numbers sud- denly sprung up to 203 ,000; in 1888 they reached 05000 The immigra- ton IS conducted by committee Of officials. whose members portion out the land through which the new rail- way runs. Up to the present moment 15000.0 900 acres have been occupied, and this comprises all the available agricultural land. But, notwithstand- ing, the Russian government allows thousands of immigrants still to swarm into Siberia, and to go to ruin in the barren and miserable marsh lands. The reason of the governments apathy is due to the fact that the officials wish thus to get rid of the starving thou sands in European Russia. There is no eivilizing influence with these fresh immigrants. The majority are beg gars with scarcely more intelligence than the Asiaties already in Siberia. The filling up of Siberia by the pres ent-day process is nothing less than the useless sacrifice of thousands of hanIess beinQS
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
UNCLE SAM SLOW.
Takes as Much Time Over a sixteer
 Cent Bill as Any Others.


 Cent Bill as Any Others.
 A grizzled veteran of two big wars and several smaller Indian eombats. was relating stories of his experience while in the service of Uncle Sam. One of them that will show your Un- Gle Samuel one of the real business men of the world is told by the vet eran, as follows: T went through the civil war, and rose from the vol unteer ranks to first-lieutenancy, and was assigned to the regular army. In June, 1873, while attached to the qaartermaster's department of my troop l disposed of some oil to private parties. In selling the oil I sold one gallon more than I had, and turned the money over to headquarters be- fore l discovered my mistake. I then wrote the department at Washington asking it to return the price of the oil, so that l might have my accounts strengthened. As only sixteen cents was involved 1 thought the matter would end by the return mail bringing back the amount of the claim. In that l was much mistaken, as I am stlll forced to answer documents that read Tn reply to yours of June, 1873, and so on and so forth, till I have in my possession a stack of documents weighing not less than fifty pounds, and still they come"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
Mechanical Brscklayer.

The latest device in the way of labor saving machinery is what is described as a mechanical bricklayer" for use in automatically laying, cementing and leveling bricks, slabs. stones and the like in the construction of fortlfi- cations, piers, bridges, viaducts, ware houses. dwelling houses and buildings of every description" Such an appar- atus has this week been patented in Great Britain and abroad by Birm- ingham consulting engineer and his son. who claim that it will save two thirds of the time occupied in laying bricks by hand.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
9ncendiary Microbes.

Under the above title a w-iter, La Nature, of Paris, contributes an inter esting article on spontaneous eombus- tion, showing that when stored hay, bales of cotton. tobacco. etc, take fire, the action is in the first place due to bacteria. In wet seasons such fires are most common and are due to storing the hay, etc, in damp state; fermen- tation follows, with great rise of tenn perature-a process due entirely to the action of microbes; the hay is changed to dry, porous and earbonaeeous condition, and it presently takes fire. It will consume slowly, until accident brings the external air to it's help, when the incandescent mass bursts into flame, and the microbes which caused the initial mischief are de- stroyed in funeral pyre of their own making.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
ABOVE THE CLOUDS.
rhas Is the Field of Naturalist's
 Work.

Work
 Theodore Holm. a Dane, for many years botanist in the National Museum at Washington, concerns himsef only with things above the clouds. He makes it his business to probe into the mysteries of nature in the remote heights of the earth. How plants and lichens grow in rigorous chimes, on the windy rocks of the snow-cappea mountains and in the arctic circle IS the special object of his research, ana the comparison between plants at the poles and these on the tops of peaks IS his special delight. His search for ln- formation has carried him into all parts of the world. Three times he has gone into the arctic circle, many times to Greenland and Iceland, ana times without number to the North cape and the Lofoten islands. He has climbed the Norwegian mountains ana has strange things to tell about the plants that grow on our own Plke,s peak "I have for long time been studying the subject of arctic flora, said MT. Holm at the Grand Central hotel, "and during my studies have been in great many parts of the globe On several occasions 1 have been member of polar expeditions. In 1S82-3 I was with the Danish ship Dymphna, which took part ill the in- ternational polar expedition, in which you will remember Gen. Greeley took part. Andre Hangaad was our captain, and for two years We drifted about the polar seas, caught in the ice does. The Dutch ship Varna, which we met, kept us company, sank at the end or the second year, but we saved the crew. I began then, as the agent or the Danish government, to pursue the studies of circumpolar botany, and since then I have followed the work in Greenland, Iceland, ,America-in fact, all over the world. What has most interested me has been the comparison of plants found in the polar regions with those found on the mountain tops. My work lies wholly above the timber line, and you will be surprised to see how many plants are to be found there. There are at least twenty species Of Towering herbs on the rocky and snow covered peaks, some of wonderful beauty and color None of them grow higher than an inch and most are only half an inch high, but they are perfect in their minuteness and of the most vivid hues. There is the Arctic pink and the Arctic dryas, both of exquisite shade and form. The Arctic poppy is another flower worth hunting for on the treeless slopes. and so is the Arctic willow. The little lyeaped is series of plant that is found in both high and low places. It is said by most bot anists not to grow higher than 5000 feet. I have found it on the top of Pike's peak, 14000 feet There it is half an inch high. In Florida it grows eight inches tall. There is a miniature clover also to be found above the tim- Der line, and a flower resembling the forget-me-not, so you see that the rocks which you are used to consid erlng barren are by no means so to one who has the eyes to look for the beauties that are there. Denver Re- publican.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
co-opers tive Creameries h IL.


 In spite of the decided feeling a,s. cooperative creameries in quarters, they are on the incres k Ireland. During the year 1898 retsz were received by the registrar psss from 387 factories, or 63 more thss ,Sa' 1897, and the hands employed had 14 creased by 631. Of the factories ss| x were owned by individual proprietas 113 were the property of joint ate.s companies. and 1855 belonged to ths ss operative farmers. Nearly tb,ss fourths Of the total number of fan ries in the country are in the provins' of Munster. The quantity of creamss butter produced in Ireland in 1893 v.. q. 1s.O40 tons, as against l4.700 tons |. tte previous year.
 We'll Informed.
 Teacher-" Johnny, can you namo x chief product of the Philippine ,s lands?" Johnny-"Yes'm. Trouh,. s Life.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
Halihut in Alaskan Waters.

Washington special Minneapolis Journal: One of the most remarkable things on the North Pacific coast is the large number of halibut in Alaskan waters. Small steamers catch cargoes in a few hours time, and it is no strange thing to see hundred thou sand pounds caught in from two to three days. Last month an Ameri- can steamer on her way to Tacoma had 133,000 pounds of halibut caught off the Alaskan coast in three and a half days by eighteen men. At three cents per pound this cargo was worth s3,900.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
Robbing the Diamond Trnst.

A hole in his right heel enabled a negro workman in the diamond fields of South Africa to secrete and steal gems to the value of $273.000 These he expressed in small parcels of fruits to cousin in King Williams Town in the extreme south of Africa, from which place both recently departed for England.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
 Diyorces in England.

Tn 1861 the population of England and Wales was about 20,0o0,000. In that year 25S divorce suits were en- tered. Ten years later there were 40 suits among 23,oo0,oo0 population. In 1881 there were 61S out of 26,000000, and last year there were s22 out of 3l,- GOO. GOO.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
GREAT CLEARING SALE
 AT WOLF NICHOLS: The Globe

d Fail Trip; this sufficient We standing bou ht Gall THE WOLF He is always with and will stay with him. Below few quotations
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
Remarkable Loss of Memory.

A remarkable case Of loss of mem- ory occurred in London, England. re- gently. It appears that an old genN tleman, we'll dressed and apparently well to do, was found by the police wandering in Moorfields. He was taken to the nearest police station, but, be- ing unable to give any satisfactory &C., count of himself, he was conveyed to Guys hospital. There it was found that he was suffering from loss of memory, and despite every device adopted nothing could be gleaned as to his identity. Upon his clothes be- ing searched an address, Spring Bank, Hull" was found upon him, and as the result of a telegram dispatched by the police to that address it was ascer- tained that the old gentleman was Mir. George Patchett, who lived at the ad- dress given. He had been missed from Hull for some days, but how and when he got to London neither his friends nor Mir. Patchett could say.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
CHEAP N

[ OST-A small ladies' gold watch. Nana
 L Edith engraued in watch. Lost on SivtH S,t.p between Tennessee and Main streets. Findoua return watch to Kaufmen Bazaar co. luea ans receive reward. 5aet
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
 THIRSTY LONDON.
The Quantity of Water Required to
 Supply the Big City.

The Quantity of Water Required to
 Supply the Big City.
 In 1894 the astounding total of 192,- 900, ,000 gallons day was reached by the combined water companies of Lon don. This was supplied to the 5,500,- 900 inhabitants at the rate of, say, thirty-two gallons head for all pur-. poses. These figures represent an enormous volume of water, though small when compared with the mighty river that flowed into old Rome. We can only deal with the figures roughly; the supply iiuctuated to considerable degree at different times in the year; it is therefore not possible to be math- ematically accurate. Allowing for a slight increase since the last return, and taking in other sources, to which l shall refer little later, we may pretty safely put the present London water supply at about 200,000,000 gal Ions day. Let us try for a moment to realize what these figures mean. With 200,000,000 gallons of water we could fill lake mile long, a quarter of mile wide and five feet deep. The water in it would weigh nearly a mill lion tons. This lake would stretch from the Bank of Church, yet it would be emptied in a single day to assuage the thirst of London. Or suppose we could freeze. all this water, we could build up a great block of ice thou sand feet long, thousand feet wide and thirty-two feet high. If we allow for the expansion of freezing the block would of course be still bigger Sixty five of the largest ironclads in the British navy could float in the water We use every day in London. When we come to compare our supply with the mighty torrent of Niagara we be- little it. The water goes laundering over the falls at the rate of 2,000, 900 tons a minute, or 420,000,O00 gallons. Our whole daily supply would be whirled over long before the second hand of watch would have travelled once around the dial. And could we divert the magnificent torrent for only three hours we could supply London with water for whole year at the present rate. Niagara is a big thing Good Words.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
win Bring Suit in United States Court

win Bring Shit in United States Court.
 The heirs of Baron de kalb, who served in the Colonial army during the Revolutionary war, will bring suit in the United States courts for sale in partition of land which was once owned by the government. The baron left son, Sebastian, whose son George went to Cincinnati The widow found some time ago papers which her eoun- sel says give her title to HOO acres of land in the vicinity of Chillicothe, Ohio, which had been given to Baron de Kalb by the government in payment for his services. This tract Of land is now very valuable
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04

FOR RENTING unfurnished or one fu,. ! nished room, for light housekeeninr Apply to No. 420 West Barraque street pi5f oIa phone 639. fS
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
A Map or france In stone.

The map of France in stone, which the Russians are preparing for the Paris exhibition, is remarkable spe- cimen of the lapidary's skill. It shows each individual department in colored jasper, while the sea is represented by lapis lazuli, the rivers by platinum and the 106 towns marked by precious stones. The countries bordering on France are given in gray jasper, and stones of the same color as that used for the adjacent mainland. The map rests on marble slab about three feet square. and it is proposed to enclose it in silver frame.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-04
Cotton Belt B. lIetin. PINE BLUFF TO CHICAGO
 Via Cotton Belt Route
Via cotton Belt Route

Il ;45 next day. Only one change; througS sleepers.
 National Live Stock Association, Fort Worth, Texas, January 10th to 18th. 19dN Rate one fair for the round trip. Dates of cts will be good fer return leaving Fort Worth any day from Jan. F to Eth inclusive 1900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-12
JEFFRIEs-CoRBErT MILL
To Be Pulled OFF at the Coney Island
Club May Is.

New York, Feb. 12-The Jenfries- Cor
bett fight, it is announced. will take place
before the Seaside Athletic club Coney
Island. W. A. Brady representing jeff
ries, and George Considine. representing
Corbett, met late Saturday afternoon and
took this decisive action. The National
Athletic club, Of San Francisco, failed to
deposit the s. 900 forfeit with a New York
stakeholder within the required time Ac-
cording to the agreement, Al Smith was
to hold the forfeit money of all parties.
He notified Messrs- Considine and Brady
that he had not received any money from
the National Athletic club. A telegram
was shown stating that the money hau
been deposited with a San Francisco
newspaper, but Considine would not hear
of this. He said that the match would be
off unless some other arrangement could
be made, and the Seaside Athletic club, of
COney Island, was chosen.
It is announced that Sam Austin will be
the referee, that Jeffries will train at AL
lenhurst, and COrbett at Lakewood.
The date of the fight has been changed
from April 10 to May Is, or therea bouts
owing to the possibility of bad training
weather in April
The Seaside Athletic clubs offer was 60
per cent of the gate receipts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-12
KANSAS news.
A Kansas City, Kansas, Catholic
Priests Charity.
Has a Plan to Make a Home Fol
the ColOred Race.
THE CITY TO FATHER 1T
TO Purchase a Tract of Land in
Healthful Spot
And Thereon COlOnize Negroes
of Tenement District.

Kansas City, Feb. 12.-The Rev. An
thony Kuhls, pastor of st. Mary's
church, has conceived a scheme by
which the city at the mouth of the Kaw
may some day have a great and beau
tiful city park where the thousands of
working people can find rest and rec
reation in their idle hours.
The father would have the city pur-
chase a large tract, of land in some
healthful and desirable locality and
COLOMBO all Of the negroes who occupy
the shanties and tents along 1.-The levee"
upon it. Then he would have the city
improve all of the waste land between
the mouth of the Kaw and the north
city limits, along the west bank of the
Missouri river, into a great public park.
1t is not estimated what the expense
of the undertaking would be, or what
disposition would be made of the big
Maple Leaf elevator and the railroad
tracks that are on the property, but
Notwithstanding the obstacles that are
apparently in the way, the scheme is
being widely discussed. 1t was sprung
by Father Kuhls at the last meeting
of the Mercantile club, and some ac-
ton may be taken upon it in the near
future
There has already been considerable
talk of building a driveway along the
river front between the two Kansas
Citys, which would be in the line Of
the improvement last suggested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-12
CAN IT DODGE ITS TAXES P
Railroad Appeals From County Board
to Federal Court.

Wellington, Feb 1.-THE St. Louis,
Kansas & Southwestern railroad, which
runs from Arkansas City, in Cowley
county, through the southern portion of
Sumner county, to Anthony, in Harper
county, is making an effort to have its
1899 taxes reduced on account of alleged
excessive taxation, and because the
earnings of the road are so small they
are unable to pay them.
The commissioners of Cowley and
Harper counties have reduced the
roads taxes one-half, but all overtures
to the commissioners of this, Sumner
county, have been fruitless. Saturday
the commissioners, sheriff and treasur-
er, were served with an injunction is
sued out of the circuit court of the
United States temporarily restraining
them from adopting or pursuing any
proceedings for the enforcement or col
lection of the taxes. and also from ex-
ecuting or attempting to execute the
tax warrant now already issued for the
collection of the taxes, until the case
shall have been argued before Judge
William c. Hook at Wichita, on March
13.
A few years ago the road went into
the hands of a receiver and was sold at
public auction at Caldwell. The county
at that time refused to compromise the
taxes, but was compelled by the feder-
al court to settle on basis of about so
per cent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-12
mAHER US. cHoYNsKI.
Big Fellows Meet in Chicago on Fri
dav Night.

Chicago, Feb. 12.-Malachy Hogan says:
1.-TWO of the best drawing cards in the
heavyweight class are to clash at the Sec
ond regiment armory Friday evening.
Peter Maher and Joe SChoynsh are to
have a six-round battle. There are no
strings to their agreement to fight. The
disposition of top-notchers to avoid a
decision in a six-round battle has been
Withdrawn for. this fight On this ac-
should not do his best to win. Even if
both are on their feet at the end of six
rounds the referee Will announce WIN
ner if one or the other of the fighters has
a, shade the best of the milling The
match is a new departure for the Fort
Dearborn Athletic club, and for the first
time in more than a year the Star theater
viii be closed on Friday night, The Sec
Ond Regiment arnOrN, at WaShin gtOn
boulevard and Curtis street, has the ca
pacity for seating 5000 people, and the go
of the pugilistic year In Chicago.
Neither of the contests has succeeded
though both have been very near to 1t.
Both are, however, popular men in the
pugilistic sense Despite the defeats Ma
her has received, the Irish champion has
always had a long line of followers IN
appeared in Chicago since 1893, when he
fought Val Flood at Roby, and is there
fore comparatively a. new man to the
large number of local fight patrons. lie
has fought all the big men, except Jeff
ries. and has the credit of a seven-round
draw with Tom Sharkey. He was defeat
Both Choynski and Maher have been
defeated by Joe Goddard, when the Aus
tralian was good. Choynski fought God
dard in Australia twice and lost both
times. Maher met GODDARD three times
and lost twice. In their last fight, Maher
was the victor.
The only meeting Maher and Choynsh
eyer had was at New York November IS,
1886. Maher was then in excellent condi-
ton and knocked Choynski out in six
rounds. There is not much form on which
to base the comparative merits of the men
except in their battles against KID Nc
Coy. So far as the records go both men
were knocked out by Mccoy, and Choyn-
ski succumbed in shorter time. Choynski,
however, put up a much better battle than
Maher, and much doubt was cast upon
McCoy's victory. With this as line the
dope shows Choynski up to a slight adj
vantage, although form of this kind does
not count for a great deal. Maher has
defeated Choynsk once. and viii prob
ably meet him with much more conf
dence than he did Mccoy. Both men
should be in fine shape for the go. Maher
has been resting since he met Mccoy and
is in training up in New York state.
Choynski will be just as good. On the
whole, the fight looks to be a toss up and
big chance for either man to win.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-12
a SCHEME FROM WICHITA.
Proposes q Non-Partisan Investiga-
ton of the Philippines.

Wichita, Feb. 12-City Clerk Amos
McClain has initiated a movement
which, in a day or two. will eliminate
in the organization or a stock COM
pany to secure information for the peo-
pie of Kansas relative to the situation
in the Philippines from a non-partisan
standpoint. To Times correspondent
Mr. McClain said:
1.-THE people of Kansas want light.
The campaign is approaching in which
our relations to the Philippines will
cut quite a figure, if it is not absolutely
an issue. Our people want to know
whether or not it is good policy to
spend millions of dollars to secure the
Philippines. AT present there is a censor
at Manila and our people are doubtful
whether the truth is coming to us. The
president is sending a, commission soon
after another commission has returned.
Its report will be looked upon with
suspicion. 1t is feared that it will be
partisan In order that the people of
Kansas can secure a report upon which
they can rely they must send their
own commission and that commission
must be noppartisan. I am in favor of
having a Democrat, a Populist and a
Republican on that cOmmission-men
who enjoy the confidence of all the
people and whose report when made,
will be believed"
Ex-Governor Lewelling will probably
be one of the directors Of the proposed
company.