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Hutchinson gazette., 1900-02-15
EDITORIAL.

While the Republicans are busy call
Ing all who do not approve Of the con-
quest of the Philippine islands cop
perheads" and traitors" they should
remember that some Of the most bril-
liant leaders who have ever graced the
Republican party are included In the
list.
The opponents of public ownership
raise the objection that public owner
ship would furnish large opportunity
for political corruption. There is a
measure Of truth in this claim-under
our present system of government by
party. The objection would disappear
with political parties, and political
parties would disappear with the adop-
tion of direct legislation.
Government by Injunction has
reached the point where a man has
secured an Injunction to prevent his
daughter from getting married and a
street railway company has secured an
injunction to prevent any person from
bringing a suit against it. Let the
system run Its length. The more ridlc-
ulous the extremes reached the SOON
er will 1t be done away with entirely
There Is going to be the usual effort
in the present congress to increase the
rates Of postage on periodicals. The
people should keep in mind the fact
that present rates would pay all ex-
penses and yield a large revenue IL
1t were not for the fraudulent contracts
with the railroad companies. The
proposition Is simply another plan to
tax the people for the benefit Of the
railroads.
The settlement Of any social or eco
nomlc problem requires thorough
knowledge Of all the conditions Of that
problem and Of the principles on which
the solution Of 1t must be based. 1t
Is not best, therefore, for any man
to conclude that he has reached the
solution unless he has given careful
and patient attention to the whole
matter and thorough consideration
of the opinions presented by others
New Era.
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-02-15

The Boston Herald thinks a good
way to reduce the surplus in the U. s.
Treasury is to reduce taxation. But,
in that case what would the Standard
OIL crowd do for ready money?
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-02-15
ThlatIe Down Cloth.

The down of thistles was spun by
the ancients to make ,acanthne gar-
ments.
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NOW A PACIFIC CABLE.
IS TO CONNECT WITH THE HA-
WAIiAN ISLANDS.
Later On, 1t Is Said, tie Line Will BE
Extended TO the Philippines-Ro
Have Been Surveyed Enormous Cost
of the Project.

At last the project of a transpaciiic
ocean cable is emerging from the class of
remote possibilities and being promoted
into the class OF early probabilities. The
Senate committee on naval affairs the
other day agreed TO report the bill for II
Paciiic>cable which Senator Hale was au-
thorized to draft and the report was later
presented TO the Senate. The bill pro-
vides for a present cable only To Homo
lulu, but declares purpose 10 extend it
in the future. Three million dollars is
appropriated for the work. and further
surveys are authorized 10 determine the
most practicable route.
Last summer the Navy Department
made a careful survey Of Al route extend
ing from Hawaii to Luzon, and this sur
vcy, with the one made in 1871 by the
hydrographt: office of the navy Of a route
from San Francisco To Honolulu, dem
onstratcs the entire practicability Of Il
submarine cable line in five links from
San Francisco to Manila. From Salinas
Landing, Monterey Bay, California, TO
Honolulu ,120 miles-extends an adj
mirable route, within a curiously formed
natural lane on the ocean bottom, 300
miles wide. From Honolulu To Wake
Island, over which our flag now floats, by
way of the Midway Islands, the line
would be 2,044 miles additional. From
Wake Island to Guam the distance is
1,293 miles further, and from Guam TO
Manila 1850 miles, or in all 6,S07 miles.
These landing points are the territory of
the United States, and the line would
cross no foreign soil
Only two obstacles were encountered
that in any way would interfere with the
laying and operation of a cable, and these
can readily be avoided by making slight
dctour around them. The first of these
obstacles is a submarine mountain a
short distance west of the Midway ISL
ands, rising from the floor of the ocean
at n depth of 300 fathoms. TO within
50 fathoms of the surface. The second
obstacle is one Of the deepest marine
abysses yet found in the world. 1t is
about 500 miles east of Guam, and the
depth Of water there is more than 1900
fathoms, or over five and two-thirds
miles. Submarine volcanoes are serious
menace to ocean cables, and several of
such volcanoes are known to exist in the
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PET JOUBERT DEAD.
TRANSvAAL'S FAMOUS GENERAL
PASSES AWAY.
His Death Great Loss TO the Beers
He Was the Organizer of Their Army
and Rival of President Kruger Beat
British at Majuba Hill.

The death OF Gen. Joubert was an
nounced Wednesday by way of Lorenzo
Marques. Two days previous Pretoria
dispatches told of the serious illness of
the famous Boer cheftain.
Gen. Pietrus Jacobus Joubert, com
mander general of the Transvaal forces,
better known as Piet Joubert, or ''Slicn
Piet" (Slim Peter, was born about six
ty-eight years ago. He was descended
from an old French Huguenot far
which settled in South Africa many yea
ago. He was born in Cape Colony, bur
was taken by his parents, when 7-years
old, to the Orange Free State, where he
was taught from early childhood to shoot
straight and hate the British. He is de-
scribed as having been utterly fearless.
OF schooling he had but little, and he new
CT saw a newspaper until he was 10 years
old.
In consequence of the acquisition OF
Natal by the British his family moved
from Natal and settled in the Transyaal.
Soon aftcrward he became Il burgher of
the South African republic and a daring
fighter. 1t was during the wars with
the natives that Joubert became acquaint-
ed with Paul Kruger, and the two men
became bosom friends. He was elected
vice-president of the Transvaal in 1896,
defeated Sir George Colley at Majuba
Hill in 1881, and acted as president of the
republic in 1SS3-1SS4, during Kruger $
absence in Europe.
Gen. Joubert was always in favor of
the use of force instead of diplomacy,
and President Kruger on several occa-
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WAR DUE TO A PLOT.
Filipino Document Sent to the Senate
by the President.

Copies OF official Filipino documents
captured by the American troops were
sent to the Senate Tuesday by the Pres
ident, in compliance with a resolution.
The most interesting paper is transla-
tion of the minutes of a meeting OF the
Filipino junta at Hong Kong on May D,
1898, four days after the destruction of
the Spanish squadron by the American
ships under Admiral Dewcy's command.
AT that meeting ii was decided to pre-
pare the Filipino people to fight the Unit
ed States if this Government declined TO
give them independence, and measures
were taken To secure arms for the Taga-
logs, thus confirming from official Fill
pino sources the belief that the outbreak
against the American troops near Ma
Mia on Feb. 4, 1899, was the result of
carefully prearrangcd plot.
At the junta's meeting on May Agui-
naldo, who had just arrived at Hong
Kong from Singapore, was elected pres
ident OF the committee. He told of me
gotiations" between himself and the
American consul at Singapore. The lat
ter had recommended that Aguinaldo con-
fer with Admiral Dewey regarding the
proposition that the Filipino leader go to
Manila in one of the American cruisers.
Agunaldo did not wish TO go without
first securing Il previous written agree
ment with Dewey, for he said If the lat
ter once had him in power he might COM
pei the signature of any agreement de-
sirable. Therefore he urged the appoint
ment of committee to call upon Ad-
,miral Dewey and ascertain the intentions
of the United States regarding the Phil
ippincs. Then, he said, if intervention
by him were necessary, it would not be
out of the way for him to go to the Phil
ippines, procuring by such means as he
could obtain succor for the fatherland.
Unless there were a previous contract
with Dewey, Aguinaldo further stated,
the admiral might not divide the arma-
ment necessary 10 guarantee the happi-
ness of the fatherand." He also refers
to the fear that by taking up arms
against Spain he would lose his share in
the 100000 which had been deposited in
the Hong Kong and Shanghai banks for
the purpose of ending the insurrection.
The minutes show that Agoncillo fav-
ored sending Aguinado to the Philip
pines, where, as president, he would be
able TO arouse them TO combat the de-
mands of the United States if the latter
colonizcd the country, and would drive
them the Filipinos) if circumstances rem
der il necessary TO titanic struggle for
their independence, even if later they
should succumb to the weight Of the yoke
of new oppressor."
According to the minutes the members
of the junta voted unanimously that
Aguinaldo and the other officers of the
Filipino republic should go at once to Lu-
zon, organize the government, and take
measures to bring about the independence
of the republic. This action was taken
nine months before the outbreak of hos
tilitics between the Filipinos and Ameri-
cnn fOrcCS
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oeXt in rank advances TO the commander
snip in case of death, instead of special
election being held, as had been the Gus
tom. Mr.. Tallmadge enlisted for the
civil war, but did not serve long, owing
to an injury received. He moved to Mil
waukee when young man and has since
resided there. He has long been promi-
nent in q. A. II. circles of Milwaukee and
Wisconsin.
Gen. Edward Moody McCook. who has
been compelled TO seek q refuge in the
soldiers home at Yountville, Cal, be-
longs 10 the tribe of John" of the his
toric fighting McCooks," almost a score
Of whom have been military men OF re-
nown. The general is the son of the late
John McCook, and was born at Steuben-
vile, Ohio, in 1885. The story OF his
military career is part Of the history of
the civil war But the general has been
a politician and statesman as well as a
soldier. He was the fifth and seventh
Governor OF Colorado, and was active in
the territorial legislature of Kansas Mt
the time when the State of Kansas was
formed.
Daniel Talon, lord mayor of Dublin,
now in America 10 raise funds for the.
Parnell memorial monument in Ireland's
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sions had great difficulty in repressing
his hot-headed colleague, notably in 1879,
when Joubert, with Kruger and preto-
rius, was planning the rebellion TO over
throw British rule in the Transvaal. The
result was Majuba Hill and the practical
independence of the Transvaal.
1t was Joubert who organized the army
OF the South African republic, later on,
dividing the country into seventeen mill
tary departments. and each OF these de-
partments into smaller divisions, with
commandants, field cornets and lieutcn-
ants of various ranks in charge. Accord
ing to the generals plans. every man be-
came a trained soldier without leaving
his farm, and had his equipment ready at
hand. To such point of perfection was
the system carried that within forty
eight hours after the present war was
declared the Boer nation was under arms.
1t was also due to Gen. Joubert that the
South African republics succeeded in
amassiDg the immense stores of war mu-
nitions and provisions which have stood
them in such good stead during the con-
fict now in progress.
When the jameson raiders were locked
up in Pretoria jail Joubert was strongly
in favor Of their immcdiatel execution.
1t was not until Joubcrt and Kruger had
been closeted together for a whole night
that the more merciful connsels OF Kru-
ger prevailed.
In November last it was reported that
Gen. Joubcrt had been killed in action.
and later reports said he was dangerous
ly wounded and had TO use cart in or
der TO follow the operations in the field.
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SHERIFF sUTER. RepuDlcan or Lon
don said: If Democrat comes to Lon
don to make a speech committee will
wait on him and tell him that he cannot
make Democratic speech there, and If
he insists he will be shot as soon as he
rises TO begin his address,"
The examining trial of Caleb Powers
was continued 1T Frankfort Monday be-
fore Judge Moore. II. Wharton Colder
went on the stand for cross examination
by the defense. Golden, in his testimony
Saturday, told Of the alleged plot TO kill
Goebel. During the hearing he said:
John Powers told me they had two mig
gers here to kill Goebel. They were
Hockersmith and Dick Coombs." The
morning of the shooting" continued Gold
en-, John Powers said to me, 'Goebel
Is going TO be killed this morning. 1
said: This must not be done. We must
go and see Caleb John Powers saw
him; didn't"
Golden, who claims to have been
friend to Secretary of State Caleb Fow-
ers and his brother, John Powers, Cor
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provinces, the Punjab, the central prov.
inces, and central India. This does not
affect the present conditions, but it Sc
cures the crops terminating in the
ground, and so guards against this fam
inc year being followed by another. 1t
will SO tend TO mitigate the growing Sc
verify of the water famine, which is
pressing upon large areas with even
greater severity than the actual failure
Of the harvest.
The last famine of 1S96-'97 may be
taken as an approximate measure of the
present one. On that occasion the cost
10 the people of India. owing to the loss
Of their food crops, was estimated at
E111,OOO,OOO, about the total revenue of
Great Britain at present. This is, neces-
sarily. only an approximate valuation,
but the actual cost TO the Indian treas
ury can be calculated with a considera-
BILE approach to accuracy. The amount
spent on relief works, the loss Of revenue,
the land revenue suspended, the loans TO
famine districts and the amount of the
charitable funds came in all TO f10,2JO,-
600.
In the House of Commons the other
day the Right Hon. Lord George Ham,
ilton, Secretary OF State for India. stat
ed that the Indian famine affects an area
of territory in which there is a popula-
ton of 60,000,000. Five million persons
are in receipt of relief, and the number
employed on the Government relief
works is 100000. The amount devoted
to the relief work in 1S99-19O0 was e.
O55,000, and it is expected that f3,235,-
600 will probably he required for the
same purpose during the current year.
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AGREE ON "oPEN DOOR,"
All the Great Powers Accept Secretary
Hays Chinese PROPOSAL.

Hays Chinese Proposal.
The correspondence between the De
partment of State and European govern
ments in regard to the open door" in
China was sent 10 the House committee
on foreign affairs Tuesday afternoon in
response TO resolution introduced in the
House 10y Representative Cummings of
New York.
All the great powers-Great Britain,
Germany, France, Russia and Italy
have agreed 10 Secretary Hays proposal
for the maintenance of the open door"
in China. Our conditions, which have
brought affirmative replies from all of the
powers, are rs follows:
/. That EACH within its "sphere Of in
fluencc" or leased territory in China,
should pledge itself not in any way to
interfere with any treaty port or vested
right within the "sphere" or territory un-
der lease.
.. That in all ports within the spheres
Of influence" except free ports, all mer-
chandise landed or shipped, irrespective
of nationality, shall pay the Chinese
treaty tariff for the time being, and the
duties shall be paid to the Chinese Gov
ernment.
g. That in ports in the spheres of in
1uencc" the Government controlling that
sphere will levy no greater harbor dues
on vessels of any nationality than are
levied on vessels of its own nationality,
and that on railroads built, controlled or
operated within these spheres" the citi-
zens of other nationalities shall pay no
higher charges for transportation Of fvmer-
chandisc than are paid by the citizens Of
the powers controlling such spheres"
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News of Minor Note.

The Farmers National Congress will
meet at Colorado Springs, Colo. on Aug.
21.
The San Francisco Board of Health
has decided that the Chinese who died
recently under suspicious circumstances
had genuine bubonic plague.
Living animals have been newly dis
covered at depth in the ocean of two
miles greater than any hitherto reached.
Gretna Mcnnonites, strong Boer SYM
pathizers, attempted to burn the Queens
efiigy in Winnipeg, but were prevented
by the threats OF Englishmen.
An order was received by Cincinnati
concern by cable from an English firm
for nearly 100000 British flags, to be
shipped as soon as they can be mace.
The Philippine naval station has stead
fly grown, until there are now forty-cight
vessels on the station, and of these ships
twenty -eighr are Of considerable size.
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LINE OF PROPOSED PACIFIC CABLE.

Pacific, in the neighborhood Of the link
already surveyed through the natural
ocean lane from San Francisco to Homo
lulu. But the survey OF 1891 showed that
these can easily be avoided in laying the
line, and no danger is to be apprehcnded
from that source. Coral formations
abound near the Hawaiian Islands, and
in hauling up the shore end of the cable
there precautions will be taken to shield
the line from any possible effects from
the coral builders. This can be done by
sheathing the shore end of the cable
with steel armor.
AS the present cost of ocean cables for
making and laying is about $1,2OO u
linear mile, the aggregate expense may
be estimated at $S,1GS, 400. Allowing
however, 1881 600 for equipment and un-
forseen contingencies, the total would be
$S,500,000. Since Admiral Dewcy's vic
tory at Manila on May /. 1898, the cable
tolls paid by our Government on mes
sages to and from the Philippines have
been enormous. At present Government
messages to or from Manila cost $2.25 Il
word--only a small reduction from the
regular rate OF $40, and special rates
on particularly pressing messages often
run up as high as $40 a word.
Our Government is far behind other
powers, including some foreign republics,
in the ownership of ocean cables. Unlike
the Pacific, which not n single cable
crosses, the Atlantic is spanned by an
abundance of cables. Twenty transat-
lantic cables have been laid since Cyrus
w. Fields first venture in 1853. -Four of
the transatlantics were downright fail
ures, but that was before cable making
and laying had become an art. Others
have fallen into disusc and have been re-
placed by better duplicates. Counting
in all the Atlantic, Mediterranean, In
dian ocean and smaller cables under all
the seas and bays of the world, there
are 1,225 separate ocean cables, aggrc-
eating in length over 10000 miles of
wire, sufficient to girdle the world seven
times over.
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TRUE TO HER FIRST LOVE.
Romantic Reunion of Lovers Who Quar-.
relied and Separated.

Romantic Reunion of Lovers Who Quar-
relied and Separated.
The marriage in Waterbury, Conn, re-
Gently of Thomas Connors and Margaret
FitZmaurice is the elimination OF ro-
nance in which there are love, quarrel,
separation and happy reunion. A dozen
years ago Connors and his bride were
sweethcarts in Ireland. There came a
quarrel over some trifling matter and
they drifted apart Neither would speak
the word OF reconciliation, though each
eagerly awaited a chance TO meet it with
pardon. Mr.. Connors came to America
and settled himself in Chicago. There
he became a good mechanic and saved his
money against the time he should hear
from Margaret. Size waited two years
and also came TO America, finding home
in Waterbury.
Here Patrick Driscoll, a thrifty wire
worker, paid court to her, but she would
not give him her promise. He was per-
sistcnt, and she at last, thinking that
her first lover had gone out of her life
for good and all, accepted Mr.. Driscoll.
Their wedding day arrived, but the BRIDE
to-bc was not at the altar. She could not
forget the old love.
The story of the wedding that failed
got into the papers, and so Mr.. Connors
heard OF Margaret. He wrote, telling
her of his long years of faithfulness, and
asked her TO pardon him and reinstate
him in her affections. The wedding re-
Gently was the result.
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WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.


Maj. Gen. Prettyman has been appoint
ed military governor of B,oemfontein.
Mr.. Vessels, president of the Raad,
has gone TO England TO solicit public
sympathy.
Gen. Kitchener Is credited with the
bulk of the work. but Gen. Roberts gets
the bouquets.
Twelve thousand shells were thrown
into Ladysmith, killing thirty-ivc of the
garrison and wouuding 1SS.
1t is estimated that Gen. Butler and
Gen. White lost 6.1S2 men during the
operations around Ladysmith.
BY the time Lord Roberts reaches the
Vaal river he will command some 10000
men, while Gen. Butler will have 10000.
The Dutch rebellion in Northeast Cape
Colony seems to be collapsing. Kitchener
has been pouring British troops into the
district.
The British war Office has issued a re-
port showing that the total number Of
casualties in South Africa has been H.
oil, exclusive Of 955 men who were eth
er accidentally killed or died from dis
case.
The total estimated expenditure on the
British fleet for the twelve months from
April !, 1000, to March 81, 1901, is plac-
ed at $137, ,613,000.
Montagu White confirms the rumors
that the Boers will utterly destroy Jo-
hannesburg IL forced to do so. Pretoria
could not be defended. he says, il Johan-
nesburg were permitted to remain.
Cecil Rhodes saws thcre have been only
10000 Beers in the field altogether, and
that the foreign mercenaries were only
about $4,000 The numbers Of the Beers,
he said, had been exaggerated In order to
explain the British reverses-
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yielded to prolonged pressure, and at last
voted with the Democrats. Taubeneck
stood out till the last and cast his vote
for "A. j. Streeter. He wept when his
two Populist colleagues deserted him and
cast their votes for Palmer. Mr.. Taube-
neck was fine specimen of Western
manhood, vigorous and sturdy, and dur
ing the Weaver campaign he exercised
commanding influence. He was about
A years of age.
Forty-two years ago Lord Roberts,
then young subaltern in the army of
Sir Colin Campbell, was present at the
relief of Lucknow, and by an act of con-
spicuous bravery won for himself the
Victoria Cross. 1t is within n month or
two of twenty years since Little Bobs,"
then Sir Frederick Roberts, made his
marvellous march through the heart of a
hostile country, leading 10000 meF 31S
miles in twenty-three days, having oven
up all reliance on his base of supplies,
and effected the relief Of Kandahar. At
the age of 20 he is still the hero OF bat
ties fought in South Africa. He has been
in military activity for fifty years.
-
The death of Gen. Harnden, command
er-in-chief Of the Wisconsin G.. A. r.,
advances to that position Samuel Ii. Tall
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Brief News Jtem.

The first counterfeit new dollar silver
certificate was found in Cleveland.
The japanese navy will hold exten-
sive mancuvcrs in the Straits of Corea..
The total number of sheep in the State
of West Virginia is 1878 valued at
$14, ,32G,5J0.
A stock company with S3,OO0.0O0 is be-
ing organized in Chicago to develop Mex
lean copper mines.
A johannesburg dispatch sent to Ber-
lin says the Transvaal gold mines have
not suffered greatly.
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,NpIA.s GREAT FAMINE.
Area and Population Affected Larger
than Ever Before.

The area and population affected in
India's present famine are much
greater than in am previous famine.
According To Official reports, the popu-
lation affected in 1Si5-6G was AZ, 100000,
in 1S6S-'69 it was 44.500,O0O, in 1ST6-'IS
as much as 5S,000.000. and in 1867 it
came to 65, 100000 The last famine al
most compares with the present in area,
but not In intensity. At the correspond
ing period Of 1897 there were 1,500,0OO
on relief works. Now there are 3,IS4,-
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Destruction by fire OF lumber has been
exceedingly serious in Washington State.
On the assumption that the burned areas
contained an average OF as much timber
as the untouched portions, 10000, 900, ,OOO
feet have been destroyed since numbering
began. This amount would supply all the
sawmills of the United States for two
years, and at value Of only 75c per
/ ZOO, means dead loss to the State of
$50. .OOO, 900.