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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-08
BURNED BY GASOLINE.
Prominent Milwaukeean and His
Coachman Fatally Injured.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. July I'm the ex-
plosion of a gasoline tank in the cellar OF
the country house of W. A. Fitzgerald at
Lake Nasawicka. late Saturday night. Mr.
Fitzgerald was so badly burned that he
dIed to-day. and his coachman, William
Grunwald. is in a dying condition. Mr.
Fitzgerald was president of the Milwaukee
Drydock Company and managing director
of the American Ship5uilding Company.
Mr. Fitzgerald, followed by his coachman.
was walking through passageway leadin &
to the cellar, trying TO locate leak in the
lighted candle from a table and had entered
the cellar before hearing Mr.. Fitzgerald
shout for him to go back
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How the Lands VIII Be Opened to Set
Element on Aug. G..

WASHINGTON. July THE proclama-
tion Of President Mckinley opening to set
tlement the lands ceded BY Indians in OK
lahoma was given to the public to-day.
The proclamation covers the cessions mace
by the Wichita and affiliated bands OF H.
dians in accordance with the act Of March
2. 1895. and those made by the Comanche'
Kiowa and Apache tribes in pursuance OF
the act OF June 6. 1900.
The proclamation provides for the open
ing of the lands in those reservations which
are not reserved at o'clock a. m. on Aug
s next, the lands 20 be open 10 settlement
under the homestead and town-site laws
Of the United States. The proclamation
says that beginning on the l0;h inst. and
ending on the 26th those who wish to make
entry of land under the homestead law
shall be registered. The registration Will
take place at the land Offices at Reno and
Lawton. The registration at each Office
will be for both land districts. To obtain
registration the applicant Will be required
to show himself duly qualified TO make
homestead entry of these lands under ex-
isting laws and TO give the registering Off
Ger such appropriate matters OF descrip-
ton and identity is will protect the appu-
cant and the government against any at
tempted impersonation.
Registration cannot be effected through
tAlC use VI lhc OF the employment
OF an agent excepting that honorably dis
charged soldiers and sailors may present
their applications through an agent, no
agent being allowed 10 represent more than
one soldier. No person will be allowed TO
register more than once. After being regis
tered applicants will be given certificates
allowing them TO go upon the ceded lands
and examine them in order to aid them In
making an intelligent selection.
IL Is explicitly stated that mo one will
De permitted to make settlement upon any
Of he 7fr1xy
provided for" and the statement is added
t'Iat during the first sixty days follow
Ing said opening no one but registered ap-
pncants VIII be permitted TO make home
stead settlement upon any of said lands.
ana then only In pursuance OF homestead
entry ouly allowed by the local land off,
GERS or OF soldiers declaratory state
ment duly accepted by such officers
THE DRAWINGS.
The order of the applications is to be de-
termined by drawing. the plan for which
is described as follows:
THE order in which during the first
sixty days following the opening, the regis
tered applicants will be permitted 10 make
homestead entry of the lands opened here
both the I'll Reno and Lawton districts,
publicly held at the United States Land Of
flee at FL Reno, o. T., commencing at 9
o'clock a. m. Monday. July %, 1901, and
continuing for such period as may be
necessary TO complete the same. The draw
lngS will be held under the supervision
and Immediate observance of a commit
tee or three persons whose integrity is
CONTINUED ON PAGE 5. COL. a.
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CUBANS MOVING SLOWLY.


HAVANA. July THE Cuban constitu-
tional convention has not yet arrived at an
understanding regarding the electoral law.
Several meetings were held last week but
very little interest was manifested in the
proceedings. many OF the delegates being
absent The Conservatives are quite hope
less with respect TO the resembling OF the
universal suffrage clause. and they are now
endeavorsng 10 secure a plural vote for
property-holders and for professional and
business men. In this they are strongly
opposed by the Radicals
An objection has recently been raised
against drawing up the electoral law until
the United States government has approved
the Constitution. the argument being that
IL would be useless TO draft laws based
upon the Constitution II Washington is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-08

WASHINGTON. July Frank II. Hitch
cock, chief OF the foreign market section OF
the Agricultural Department, has COM
pleted compiled statistics showing the dis
tribution Of the agricultural exports of the
United States for the year ls99-l900. He
shows there were a dozen countries in 1900
to each OF which the United States ex-
ported over ten million dollars worth OF
domestic farm products. The United King
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-08
SPILLED FROM AN AUTOMOBILE
College Professor and n Machinist
Severely Injured.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, July 7-President
j. NJ. Porter who is in charge of the civil
engineering department of Lafayette Col
lege at Easton. Pa, and NJ. 1. West, a
machinist, while riding in an automobile en-
route from Cleveland, o., to Easton, went
down a steep embankment near Coldwater
last night and were severely injured. The
automobile fell upon Mr.. Porter, and before
he could extricate himself he was pain
fully Scalded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-08
An English Tribute.

LONDON, July S.-The morning papers
contain long obituaries of Pierre Lorillard.
He will stand out as the man who opened
up the possibilities Of ths British turf TO
his fellow-countrymen. says the Daily
Telegraph. "as the man who dealt death
blow to those narrow minded insular per-
sons who resented the intrusion of the
star-spangled banner among the silks and
satins of the British race course"
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The total in 1896 was s574,39S, ,26i About
half of the trade in breadstuffs in 1900 went
to the United Kingdom, with Germany next
at sS2,O2S.00. OF the raw cotton, $50 100000
went TO the United Kingdom, $64, ,395 900 TO
Germany and $27,776, 600 to France. OF meat
products $l07. .621, 900 went TO the United
Kingdom and $32, ,70S, 900 of live animals TO
the country.
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OTHER DEATHS.
James E. Yeatman, WelI-KnOwn
ST. Louis PhiInnthropist.

ST. LOUIS, July flames Z. Yeatman
philanthropist, died to-day. aged eighty
four years, from the effects of uraemia, for
which he was operated on nearly two
weeks ago.
in Bedford county, Tennessee, and went to
ST Louis in 1872. Although a STAKEHOLDER
before the war he devised the organizat ton
OF the Freedmans Bureau and made an
official report to Washington. in which he
advised the leasing of abandoned cotton
plantations TO the freedmen. For many
years Mr.. Yeatman had not been actively
engaged in business. but was identified
with numerous charities. He Is believed to
be the original Mr. Brinsmade in Winston
Churchills novel, THE Crisis"
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Mary Elliott Lumbard.

OMAHA, July MARY Elliott Lumbard.
prominent club woman and wife of Jules
Lumbard. we'll known throughout the coun-
try as a lawyer and singer, died in this
city tonight, aged sixty-nine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-08

ARDMORE, l. T., July 7.-Several hun
dred persons were poisoned at Ada to-day
by drinking lemonade Three children are
reported dead and many seriously Ill.
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Franz REM.

BERLIN, July Franz REM. for many
years the principal circus proprietor in
Germany, has just died at his villa near
Hamburg.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-08

IDS VIII IeaNe Z,Il3,)JD acres Tor actual
homestead settlement.
Sections IL. Is. % and SS in each congres-
eional township are reserved for schools
colleges plolic buildings and for the future
use Of the State OF Oklahoma Persons who
have heretofore exhausted their homestead
right and who are desirOus OF removing 10
Oklahoma. will have opportunity 10
lease school lands In the KiOwa and CO.
manche country when IL Is opened 10 set
tiement at low figure. thus giving them a
splendid chance 10 secure good place at
nominal rental. These lands Will be offered
for lease soon after the opening OF the
country TO settlement.
The mining claims In the mountains Will
form IN important feature in the new coun-
try. Repeated discoveries OF gold and
other rich minerals nave been made In the
Wichita mountains. but the refusal OF the
government 70 allow these claims 10 be
worked has kept old miners In a state OF
perpetual excitement. and they are waiting
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Prof. Ludwig Gaupp.

BERLIN, July 7-Prof. Ludwig Gaupp,
of the University of Tuehingen. is dead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-08
Exports to Porto Rico.s-
Month.
81 s5s. .627 s371s $40 s7lss O3l
Totals =.
Imports from Porto Rico

sForeign and domestic merchandise in
cluded prior to May. 1900; since that date,
domestic merchandise only.
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THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.

for an opportunity to go into the new land
and develop the mining resources.
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FOoDsTUFFs SENT ABROAD.

ais 1,775 s2.2ls.273 sS.S27. .419
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05
DEFECTS
OF SIGHT

The three defects of eyesight which
otherwise healthy persons and which
can be more or less perfectly over
come by means of glasses are near
~sightedness, fa~r-sightedness and astig-
matism. These are all important, for,
besides the discomfort and annoyance
of imperfect sight, the involuntary eff
forts which the sufferer makes to see
better strain the eyes and not only in
jure them, but also give rise, through
reflex action, to headaches and various
ervou disturbances. Near-sighted-
ness, short-sightedness, or myopia, as
it is variously called, is a condition of
the eyeball-usually a lengthening-in
consequence of which the rays of light
are brought to a focus in front Of the
retina and so the object is blurred.
This condition may exist from birth,
but is usually the result of too much
and too early use of the eyes, as in the
case of students, engravers, women
who do fine sewing and so forth. Thus
we may say that putting children at
work at some of the kindergarten ex-
e~rcises, such as perforating and draw
ing, is in a double sense a short-sight-
ed procedure. Many near-sighted peo-
pie refuse to wea glasses, preferring
to deprive themselves of sight for
everything beyond their nose rather
than injure their personal appearance,
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boat. They swan well and pulled the
boat through the water at a good
speed. BY pulling on the reins that
passed through the mouths of the
gators, Mr.. Lee was able to turn his
strange water team in any direction he
pleased.
Mr.. Lee made a point Of never feed
ing his alligators until after they re-
turned from a trip, when he would inn
mediately reward each one with a
fine meal.
The alligators seem to be willing to
perform their task of pulling his boat,
and when he turns them out of the
pen in which they are stabbed and
starts them for the water they shut
fe down to the boat in the liveliest
style, and after they are hitched they
plunge into the water with grunts OF
delight.
Mr.. Lee says his strange team has
never run away nor kicked out the
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

Jefferson Lee, who lives on the st.
Johns river in Putnam county, Fla,
has the most extraordinary team in the
country. 1t is a team of alligators that
Mr.. Lee uses to tow his boat up and
down the river when he goes to mar
ket. MI. Lee has to go six miles down
the river to his ~postofice, and 1t Is a
hard pull against the current coming
back. He noticed how swiftly allfga-
tors swan, and it occurred to him that
it might be a good idea to turn n
alligators that abound in the st. Johns
river, to some account. He captured a
pair of young gators and raised them
in his yard. He taught them to
swim and drag a weight behind them
and he also taught them to turn either
to the right or left by pulling ropes
fastened to their teeth on either side.
When the alligators were big enough
he put a. harness that he had construct
ed on them and harnessed them to his
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

Wild Buffalo, mounted upon a gayly
caparisoned horse, will dash into the
village, followed by a dozen or more
young braves, friends of the bride
groom. Crowds of young men and
girls will greet them with shouts of de-
rision. They will tell him that while
he slept a fortunate rival came and
carried the beautiful Loralepe away
on a white horse. Wild Buffalo will
affect great grief and distress. While
the young men are wailing and breath
ing threats the girls will laugh at them
and call them "lazy lovers" An old
woman whispers a word into the ears
of the sorrowing lover and points to-
ward the forest. Uttering shouts Of
the widest joy the young warriors set
out in pursuit Of the stolen maiden.
After some hours have passed Wild
Buffalo will appear at a full gallop
bearing his sweetheart in his arms.
Followed by a long cavalcade of boys
and girls : he will circle about the
camp, welcomed by shouts of the wild
est joy. The white visitors might en-
joy the affair with deeper interest
were it not for the fact that the Kio-
was have never abandoned dog flesh,
but regard a well roasted, fat dog as a
dish fit for royalty.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05
KlOWaS On Qul YlYe.

When the next new moon appears in
the western sky a joyful shout will sa-
lutte the bright orb from every Kiowa
village in the Indian Territory. All
Kiowas are awaiting the event with
eager anxiety, for it is to be the be-
ginning of a wedding festival which
will last for three days and nights.
The contracting parties are of royal
blood, the bride being the beautiful
Loralene, the richest heiress of the
Kiowas, and it is anticipated that no
means will be spared to make the festi-
val the greatest ever witnessed among
the tribes of the west.
For two or three years Wild Buffalo,
the groom, has pursued this pretty In
dian girl which he sought to make his
wife. He had many rivals and during
the days of his long courtship there
have been periods when it looked as
though he would fail.
Was n Coquette.
Loralene was as coquettlsh as she
was pretty. When she was little her
mother named her Tena, which meant
knocking bird" in the Kiowa Ian
guage. This name, however, did not
suit a girl of 16 who had become the
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

belle of the whole Kiowa nation and
it was changed to Loralene,, which is
the Kiowa name for a beautiful flower
which, by it's exquisite odor lures in
sects to it's petals and then closes on
them and feeds on their bodies.
Loralene's father was n Of the
shrewdest Indians that ever lived. His
tribal name was Silver Hand, so called
because he always had plenty of nom
ey. A few years before his death Sill
yer Hand placed his daughter, Lora-
lene, in school in Arkansas City thai
she might become educated as the
white girls, and when he died he left
a handsome bank account to her credit.
The Indian girl would not return to
school after the death of her father,
but was bent on having a good time.
During the great autumnal hunt of
the Kiowas last year the young
braves of the tribe were made to I'M
derstand that Loralene intended to
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

The Chinese compradore, through
sponsibility. In banks, hotels, railway
and shipping offices the bulk of all
money received and paid out passes
through his trustworthy hands, says
the New York Tribune. Even in ia
pan, Notwithstanding the race antago-
nism that un~questionably exists, the
Chinese compradore is to be found
everywhere. In important commercial
transactions he, and not a g~Orbetween
of their w nationality, is employed
by the Japanese from Yokohama to
Nagasaki. This is also true in Manila
and Singapore, where the English are
at the head of affairs. One of the ablest
and best known compradores in China
is Wong Soong Dong, who has held
this position in the Office of the United
States consul-general in Shanghai for
over thirty years. This is regarded
or was-by the Chinese as highly COM
plimentary, both to the compradore
himself and to his government, since it
indicates recognition of f~aithfulness
and integrity, which makes it worth
while for his native su~bordinates to
emulate him in well-doing.
Wong Soong Dong was in the employ
Of this government at the time when
ex-President Grant made his tour
around the world, and he wears on his
watch chain an American eagle il
gold presented him by the American
emperor" as the Chinese called Gener
al Grant. He is a man well educated
according to native standards, speak
ing English with considerable fiuency
and he possesses all the dignity AM
courtesy of his race. From the Uniter
States he receives a stipend of $50 gol'
a month, but his private enterprise
are extensive and profitable, yieldin
him, it is said, an income of somethin
like $12, 900 a year. This has not bee
acquired, by any means, through hi
Office, but from the various nativ
banks and shops in which he is inter
ested, and which are carried on fo
him by agents, after the manner of a
Chinese capitalists. He loans none
at a profitable rate of interest; /
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05
Trained A11igators at Work

dashboard of his river craft, but that
they have one fault, for which, how
ever, he does not blame them. They
sometimes sweep their powerful tails
in a curve through the water, and once
smashed one of his boats into small
bits and threw Mr.. Lee and a party
that he was taking boat riding into the
river. They would all have been
drowned bad not the alligators swan
back to them and permitted the party
to climb ON their backs, after which
the alligators swan swiftly to the
shore and all were saved. Mr.. Lee
now bitches his team twenty feet in
front of the boat, so that the sweep OF
their tails will not endanger the craft.
Mr.. Lees success has created great
interest among all of his n~eighbors,
and now many, a~lligators are being
trained for duty as sea horses.
A mans true character crops out
when he is dealing in trifes.
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The * * x
Compradore
Important Funcfion-
orY at IRE Sb0nSb0f
Consulate.

owns a tailoring establishment, EN-
ploying a score or more men; a shop
where silks and curios are sold, and
over all these he keeps close personal
supervision that does not in the least
affect his usefulness as compradore.
On the contrary, his high commercial
standing has made him all the more
valuable, in that it brings him into
close contact with Chinese whose as
sistance and influence are frequently
required by the consul-general. Very
little money is paid in the East when
purchases are made by residents in the
open ports. The "chit" system pre-
vails-one which is mischievous alike
to buyer and dealer, since it induces
extravaganza and long and ineonve-
nient credit. Whatever is wanted is
ordered through the c~ompradore, who
receives a "chit" or written order, and
the articles required are sent to the
buyers residence on approval. With
the very exact four settlements are
made annually, but the more general
custom is to balance accounts at the
beginning of the new year. All the.
"chits' or orders are carefully pre-
served by the compradore, and an ac-
curate statement is made of all money
paid out. This routine is followed
whether the purchase amounts to a
few cash or runs up into the hundreds
of taels. For thirty years all the buy
ing for the United States consulate
has been done in this by Wong
Soong Dong, and there has never been
the discrepancy of a single cash in his
accounts. He bargains for all the
house furnishings required, the sup
plies for the consular table, the fuel,
even the silks, linens and ~bric-a-brac
which the casual visitors buy to take
back home with them. In all the years
of his service he has made the affairs
Z of the country which he serves practi-
i cally his own, driving shrewd bar
gains, ~placating the unfriendly, and
watching the ~over-reaching and schem-
: ing with a cleverness greater thar
r their own. Administrations come ant
/ go, but Wong Soong Dong remains
Y and doubtless will until he is superan
e nuated and retires voluntarily.
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Near Siehtedness, Far
siQhtedness and
A~sti9motism Described

as they think. This is another short
sighted policy, for, besides losing much
of the joy of beautiful things about
and above us, such persons are very
liable to suffer from Inflammation of
the ayes produced by constant strain.
A less common defect is long or far
sightedness or hypermetropia. This is
the opposite of myopia, the eyeball
being fattened or shortened and the
rays of light consequently not coming
to a focus by the time they reach the
retina. In this case the eye often cor
reefs the defect more or less success
fully by making the crystalline lens
more convex, but it does this at the
expense of the sufferers nerve force,
and SO we often find tired and con-
gested eyes, headaches, indigestion and
even serious nervous affections. The
effort to correct the vision is entirely
involuntary and can be overcome only
by the fitting of suitable convex
glasses. The third and most common
defect is astigmatism. In this condi-
ton there is some irregularity of the
surface of the eye or the lens, by
means of which the image as it reaches
the retina is distorted. Untreated as
tigmatism is a frequent cause of head
ache and other nervous disturbances.
The only relief is the wearing or when
ever at least while reading, writing
or whenever near objects are looked at.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

The movement for diversified indus
tries in the southern states, which for
merly were almost exclusively agri-
cultural, has now attained wide extent
and shows no sign Of ceasing. 1t has
gone far beyond the iron region of Ala
bama and Tennessee, the cotton coun-
try of the Carolinas and the marble
and other districts of Georgia. Every
state has felt its impetus and is
yielding to it's salutary sway. Con-
spicuous among them is Texas, the one
southern state which promises to rival
in population the great states of the