Fergus County argus., 1901-08-07

case 1t would have n far-rcaching
effect along political lines In the west
and south.
According to State Geologist Dum-
BILE Texas has great future beforelt.
He says that in one county alone,
that OF Cherokee, there are 600, ,0O0, 900
tons ofrich iron Orein sight, and that
in east Texas, ns a whole, there are
8 1000, ,0OO, 900 tons, And by the side of
this ore lies the coal necessary to
work the ore into shape. The geolo-
gist makes the fiat statement that
"no country in the world has cheaper
material for making iron than east
Texas"
NJ. Santos.Damont has given sue
assiul exhibition of aerial navigation
in Paris, which lasted for twenty
minutes. The airship sailed from st.
Cloud To the Longchamps racecourse
and ascended and descended with
perfect ease. Though asked to make
an attempt to go around Eiffel tow
er, the aeronaut declined, saying his
motor was not yet working as well
as he wanted. The weather WAS
cloudy, which may have influenced
his decision.
Lieutenant Enrique Capriles who
was on board the Spanish warship
Vizcaya during the battle OfSantiagO
says i'm relation to the charges OF
cuwardice preferred against Admiral
Schley, 81 was on the bridge OF the
! Nizcaya and saw the fieht. / saw
the Brooklyn and from an excellent
position observed her movements.
The Brooklyn attacked us, aud it is
ridiculous to say the Brooklyn kept
too far away or stayed out of the
fight. There can't have been COW.
ardice where the ship engaged three
OF ours. Eye-witnesses OF the battle
are dying of, and it II better tn
finally settle the question now while
enough witnesses are living"
The Celtic, which il the biggest ship
IN the world reached her dock In New
York last week on her first voyage.
Her time from Liverpool was 5 days
and 46 minutes. As she IL berthed her
steering deck is higher than the en-
trance to the pier. After she was
warped in the iron doors aft the cab
ins had to be opened to land the pas
sengcrs. The sun deck towers above
the roof Of the pier. Three hundred
and forty-live cabin and two humid
red and sixty eight steerage passen-
gers came over on the C~ltic. 1t was
not intended that the big liner should
make any marvellous time on this
trip. Her average speed was ll,95
knots, although she Is able to log
lGa knots an hour.
A train on the Baltimore 4 Ohio
railroad was held up last week by
two men 30 miles from Chicago. The
crime. though carried out with as
tonishing nerve and cool Judgment,
gained its perpetrators nothing, be-
cause they mistook car containing
storage mail for the express car,
laden with $50,0O00 in currency and
treasure. The robbers got away In
safety, but within three hours after
news of the attempt reached Chicago,
II special train with Captain George
Shippy of the South Chicago police,
ten officers and detail Of railroad
detectives, carrying rifles. had been
dispatched to Edgemoor. Only a few
miles away from the scene of the
hold-up a Baltimore & Ohio train,
westbound from Pittsburg and haul
ing an express car loaded with valu.
ables and bullion, narrowly escaped
being ditched and wrecked ou Tues
day morning by large rock tied to
the rails with stout wire.
The Rev. Camden NJ. Coburn, who
will shortly take charge Of the st.
James NJ. L. church In Chicago, advo-
Gates the establishing of saloons with
free lunches and music in the heart of
many of the big cities as an aid to
church work. In defense Of this s.art.
ling proposition the reverend gentle
man says: ave are sometimes re-
strained from doing the things that
are practical in aiding the people in
the slums through what we suppose
to be piety, but is simply prejudice.
Do you know that am heretodox
enough to believe that we temper
ance people cannot cure the saloon
evil by driving dive keepers out OF
town, or even by shutting up all the
saloons? The fact is, the saloon is
filling u place in the community
which something ought to fill. There
always will be slums, at least as long
as we live, but we can make them
better II we are interested enough
and not too pious to do it,
The first organization OF the
military company by a labor
organization was put under way last
Saturday says Wheeling, Va, dis
patch, by crescent lodge Amalga-
mated association, and today SO
popular IL the plan that the members
Of the labor unions by the hundreds
are discussing 1t favorably and the
Indications are that "A very large per