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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06
ROCKAWAY BEACH
SWEPT BY FIRE
Eleven Hotels and Several Other Build.
ings Entirely Destroyed.
FOUR PERSONS LOST THEIR LIVES.
The Fire Started In the Frame Structure Oc'
cupied by the Kastens-In Short Time 1t
Spread to an Unoccupied Brick Building,
and Then LeveIed Eleven 0thers-The Loss
Is Estimated at About $4,000.

New York (SpeciaD Max Hasten,
az years old, and Mrs. Lydia McKrow,
the same age, lost their lives in fire
which swept away many buildings at
Rockaway Beach.
Thomas S. McKrow and his fve-year
old son Frank; Martin Hanson, 20, and
Morris Hasten, Is, were injured and ia
ken to a hospital in Long Island City.
Several hours later young McKrow died,
and the father was reported to be dying.
The fire started in the frame dwelling
occupied by the Kastens. In short time
it spread to an unoccupied brick building,
and then in succession leveled the fol-
lowing structures: Kasten's Hotel, the
Colonnade Hotel, the Casino, Walters
Hotel, Sycamore Hotel, Burns Hotel,
Seaside Avenue Museum, the Annex Ho-
tel, one-story frame hotel, unoccupied /;
Pcterson's Hotel, the Mousette Hotel.
Other structures damaged were Harry
Genette's store, Herr Bros. store, the
Morrison stables and Brennan's Hotel.
The buildings for the most part were
of the frame type usual at the seaside
resorts, and the loss is estimated at
about $4,000. After the fire had been
controlled the body of a man was found
burned to a crisp in one of the buildings.
He is supposed to have been candy
maker. A number of persons received
slight burns. The fire appears to have
started in the kitchen of Kasten's Hotel,
probably from the explosion of gaso-
line stove of from pot of candy boiling
over
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06

went to sleep. The old man rose early
in the morning. drank cup OF coffee
and began his hunt alone. He did not
tell his wife where he was going and
she did not care to know.
Two hours afterward she united the
yellow dog ana it took up its masters
track. No matter what the condition
Of the ground or the weather, this
brute, with its ugly face and its won
derful nose, stuck to the trail without
fault.
After travelling for a half hour or
an hour, the woman and the dog would
come to the carcass Of deer freshly
slain. Mrs. Pulliam would skin it
deity, wrap up the skin, and the dog.
gulping a hunk of flesh, would lower
its muzzle to earth and resume Its
saunter.
This went on all day and every day
until the neighborhood furnished no
more deer; then a move was made.
The Pulliams came into the small
towns only to sell the hides, soma
dried venison and purchase supplies.
They have been known to sell more
than thousand skins between Nov ]
and March /. These skins brought
them something like $500 and the
jerked venison was worth 800 more.
When the dog died they got another.
but it was not so good, and Mrs. Pull
liam often failed to find deer her wan.
dering old lord had knocked down.
They hunted almost to the last, how.
ever, and made a sort of living from
IT,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06
DEFIANT NATIVES.
Col Baldwin Says There Gao Be No Peace
Until This Element Is Wiped Out.

Manila (By Cable Col. Frank D.
Baldwin, of the Fourth United States In
fantry, has telegraphcd to Brig.-Gen.
George W. Davis, in command of the
United States troops in the Island of
Mindanao, that he does not exepct to
establish satisfactory peace conditions in
the Lake Lano district until the defiant
element is wiped out. The natives pre-
tending to be friendly are urging that
this be done, as their own lives are in
jeopardy, which," the Colonel adds, 1--WE
are in the highest sense under obllga-
tons to protect"
"The defiant element" continues Col.
Baldwin, respect nothing but power and
the sword. They will destroy humans
until destroyed themselves"
General Davis replied that to meet the
emergency in the way suggested by Col.
Baldwin would necessitate the capture
of every Moro fort which now admits
American soldiers as friends. and that
such action OH the part of the Ameri-
can forces is forbidden by existing or
ders.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06
To Make MaIIeable Glass.

Muncie, Ind. (SpeciaD.-I claim to
have discovered the secret of manufac-
turing maleable glass, the long-lost art
of the ancients, and, though | have not
succeeded in obtaining glass that is
absolutely malleablc-tlat is, hammerable
and unbreakabe-I am now manufacture
ing semi-malleable ware, and soon will be
able to put on the market kind of glass
that will be as malleable as any of the
metals" was the statement made by
Louis Kauffeld. Kauffeld is the head of
lamp chimney factory. He is turning
out few chimneys of his semi-malleable
glass, but says he is not yet ready'to put
them on the market in any considerable
quantity.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06

Old Man Ben Pulliam and his wife
have gone to their rest. says a dis
patch from Uvalde, Texas, but they
will be remembered here for long as
the queerest deer-hunting couple, and
the most successful, that this part of
the state has known. They were wed
ded for so years and had no children.
They had a dog, however yellow,
discouraged looking brute, which car
rled its tail between It's legs and
showed two front teeth to the world
when shambling along. 1t found in the
Pulliams its only friends.
Where they got it no other body
ever knew. 1t worked for them more
than a dozen years. They were bread
and meat to it; it was bread and meat
to them. They lived the year around
on the produce of five months work.
and this produce was deer meat and
deer hides.
1t was the custom of the Pulliams
to leave Uvalde in November of each
year. They carried frying pan, a
Dutch oven, coffee pot, few pounds
of supplies and tent-fy. The old
man had a muzzle-loading rifle Of so
bore, powder, bullets, patching and
percussion caps.
So supplied, they struck out over the
prairies and through the mesquite and
the dog followed. 1t does not rain
much here in the winter time and it
does not get cold.
Reaching a suitable place, with
water near, they stretched the tent
fly over limbs. cooked supper and
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06
FARMER NAILED TO A TREE.
Atrocious Cruelty of Two Robbers-Ells Sides
and Hands Iaeerated.

Huntsville, Ala, (SpeciaD Tom
Hairless, farmer living near Berkeley,
was assaulted and robbed by two men
and then nailed to a tree. He was res
cued alive, but his hands were badly
torn and he will not be able TO work for
several months. Hairless had been plow-
ing and was eating his dinner at spring,
when he was confronted by two strange
men with pistols, who robbed him of 81
and then backed him against tree. The
loose folds of flesh on each side were
pulled out and nailed to the tree, and
his hands were stretched above his head
and treated likewise In this condition
the man remained until dark, when he
was rescued by farm hand
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06
CHAPTER V.

To bring woman into focus, by
means even of scandal, has always
been a sure way to bring upon her
more than her fair share of the admit
ration of the other sex. When. there
fore, the object of public attention is
gifted with unusual attractions of per-
son and manner, the havoc she makes
in susceptible masculine hearts is pro-
pOrtl0hateIy great.
Clifford was not particularly weak
man, and he would have scorned, a
week ago, the idea that he could love
a woman the more for being under
suspicion of theft. But it is incontest-
able, for all that, that the stronger the
suspicious circumstances grew which
hedged her round, the stronger also
become his own feelings of tender in.
terest.
If she were not the thief, then who
could it have been? And if it were
indeed she who had taken his watch
and money, and dropped or thrown
away the former On her way between
Single End and the Blue Lion, what
was the cause which had prompted the
act?
The case for somnambulism still
seemed strong to Clifford, for this
would have accounted for the fright
ened look of half-remembrance which
he had seen more than once in her
face, when the theft was being dis
cussed.
On the other hand, she had certainly
been wide awake when he saw her
start for Single End across the fields
that morning, at the very time when
she must have been carrying the
watch.
And If not somnambulism, then what
other motive could there be for this
yielding to horrible temptation on
the part of a beautiful, amiable and
apparently candid and good girl? Was
she the victim to that doubtful disease
invented to afford magistrates an ex-
cuse for discharging well-connected
thieves "of superior education" Was
she, in fact, "kleptomaniac?"
Or, again: Were the difficulties Of
her uncle not over, as she had repre-
scented them to be, and was she the vic-
tim of Q misguided determination to
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06
Collision Between Sccrchers.

Lancaster, Pa. (SpeciaD.-One man
is dead and another dying as the result
of a bicycle collision which occurred
here. The victims are Walter Powell
and Daniel Treewitz, each about u
years. Powell is a speedy amateur bicy-
clist. Paced by Treewitz, he was train
ing for a race on Wheatland avenue.
1t was dark and neither bicycle had a
lamp. Powell, thinking he had out
stripped Treewitz, turned to ind HIM,
and they collded, both being thrown vio-
lently to the street Powell was carried
unconscious to St. Joseph's Hospital,
near by. His skull was fractured and he
died without having regained conscious
pecc
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06
Chattanooga Is Shaken.

Chattanooga, Tenn, (Special).-At
2.3o A. NJ. a considerable portion of the
sleeping population of this city was
aroused BY the shaking houses and rat
Ting of windows, which continued for
only few seconds. Inquiries fail to de-
velop any damage to property. but IT is
asserted BY many reputable citizens that
the disturbance was a distinct earth
ouake Walls of houses vbrated and
windows ratified. A number of super
stitious negroes who were awakened by
the shaking of their beds ran to the
street thoroughly scared.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06

you get that check sent you yester-
day."
I'm sure" replied the author, mod
estly, 81 don't know; I got so many
checks yesterday"
"Why, I mean the one for $40 for
that short story of yours l accepted"
said the publisher in loud voice.
ooh, yes" quietly replied the author.
II recollect now. Yes, got 1t. II
was for that story l sent you last year
which you returned saying it was dead
rot and paid seventy for this year."
With one voice the company Of card
players cried:
Score one!"
But amid the laughter the hilarious
note of the publisher was heard not
Brooklyn Eagle.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06
Mexican
Mustang Liniment.
NETWORK TRIBUNE FARMER.

For sixty years the NETWORK WEEKLY TRIB'
UNE has been a national weekly newspaper, read al
entirely by farmers, and has enjoyed the conf
dence and support of the American people to degree
never attained by any similar publication
THE NETWORK TRIBUNE FARMER
is made absolutely for farmers and their families. The
first number was issued November 7th 1901.
Every department of agricultural industry is covered
by special contributors who leaders in this respective
lines and the TRIBUNE FARMER will be every
high class, up to date, live enerprisng paper pro-
fusey illustrated with pictures of live stock model build
ings and homes, agricultural machinery, etc
Farmers wives and daughters will find special
pages for their entertainment.
Regular price per year. but you can buy with your
avore home weekly Tho Highland Recorder one
year for $3.50. urr n,oonn,p
Send your subscriptions and money to THE RECORDER,
Monterey, Va
Send your and address to the NEW fofh I'M
HUNE FARMER, New York City, and free sample copy
will be mailed
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CHTPTEIc ".
Continued.


There was a faint track over the
fields. not defined enough to be called
n footpath. but just clear enough for
him to discern by the trodden look of
the short grass.
He was within a couple of hundred
yards of the little river. and was look
ing out for any sign of Nell's presence
In the little kitchen garden on the other
side, when he became aware that the
questionable Jem Stickels was in sight,
punting slowly down the stream, as he
had done the day before. Catching
sight of the gentleman, Jem drew his
punt to the shore, and with his black
felt hat on the back Of his head, his
short clay pipe in his mouth, his hands
in his pockets he landed, and slouched
along toward Clifford.
"Well. sir, 1 warned you as how it
were not wise thing to put up at the
Blue Lion" said Jem, with swagger-
ing insolence which made Clifford
want to kick him. II card Of 1t up at
Fleet yonder," and he jerked his head
back in the direction of the old ruined
castle up the river. Il s'pose there's
been a grand pretence O. huntin' about
the place, and how they've found moth
in They're gettin' used to these lit.
tie scenes by this time"
After one glance at Clifford's face,
the man let his eyes wander elsewhere.
Looking shiftil% and idly about as he
spoke. his attention was suddenly ar
rested, just as he finished his speech,
by something on the ground, apparent
ly a few feet from where Clifford was
standing. The latter noticed the rapid
change which came over the mans
face, the eager look Of interest and as
constituent with which he stood gazing
en-mouthed at the one particular
spot on the ground.
In spite of himself, Clifford turned
his head and looked. too.
There, on the grass behind him, not
three feet from the track he had fol-
lowed. was his own watch. with the
chain still attached to it, lying half
hidden in the stubbly growth Of the
field.
For the first moment Clifford stared
without speaking or moving, dumb
with establishment.
"My watch! How did it get there"
he stammer at last.
The man laughed scornfully.
"Aye, how did it? 1 think could
give a good guess. if 1 dared"
"What do you mean?
"Why, that this is the way Miss Nell
Claris goes to see Miss Bostal at Shin
gle End, and that nobody but her ever
uses it. That is what 1 should make
so bold as to mean, if could speak my
mind. And I'll wager Miss Nell has
been along here this morning. Oh,
she don't get around the swells for
nothing, she don't"
Clifford sprang at the man and pin
toned him by the throat.
"You lying curp he Kissed out. saw
agely. "You deserve thrashing for
thisr'
But even as he flung the fellow
sprawling in the mud of the river
bank, Clifford felt a chill at his heart
when he saw the evidence closing
round pretty Nell.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06
AUTHOR SCORES ON PUBLISHER.
Downtrodden Writer Who Got Even
with His Tyrant

Downtrodden Writer Who Got Even
with His Tyrant
Only the rattle of the wheels on the
rails disturbed the quiet of the smok-
ing car on one of the suburban trains
the other morning, save when a pro-
ficient card player announced the
number to be scored at the end of
hand. A certain publisher, who never
failed to travel on that train, for
wonder was silent, and had no tales
to tell of the enormous circulation
of the last book he had wheedled out
of the author for almost nothing.
After a while the author, who occa-
sionally travels on the same train, got
on at a small station.
Hello Blank" roared out the pup
Usher as soon as the author doomed up
in the doorway, fixing the attention
Of the car on the twain: II say. did
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06
Financial.

The Union Pacific April gross in.
erased $321,636; net increased $I36,242
The New York Sub-treasury statement
shows that the banks lost $o85, 900 dur
ing the week.
The international Paper Company has
declared the regular quarterly dividend
of ~ per cent. on the preferred stock,
payable July I.
The Rubber Goods Manufacturing
Company has declared the regular quar-
terly dividend of ~ per cent. on prefer
red stock, payable June 10.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06
To be Continued.

The census returns show that clear
majority Of The people Of New Jersey
live within twenty miles Of the New
York City Hall
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06

Great treasures do not need large
houses -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
ROOT OR MILES
President Must Decide BetWeel
Them and VIII Keep Former.
Ne,v York Su,, Special Sesefcs

Ncso York Sam Specaat Ses-etce
Washington, April 4.-Lieutenant Gen
eral Miles will be placed on the retired
list by President Roosevelt without wait
ing for the age of compulsory retlrement
a year from next August. The president
has authority to retire Miles under the
act Of 1862. Miles may be retired WITHIN
week or two or not for several months
The president regrets the necessity, out
regards it as inevitable that Miles should
be placed beyond the power to continually
embarrass the war department and de-
moralize the army as he has done for the
last four years.
Secretary Root has tried to work with
Miles, but has to devote one-half his time
to overcoming the opposition OF the gen
eral and Strengthening out the embar-
RAISING situations created by him. Root
| will not much longer endure this annoy
ance He surrendered large and lucra-
tive law practice to give his time and ell
| fort to the war department. He is willing
| to continue in the cabinet, but he Is not
willing to devote his time to pickering
with an army officer whose sole ambition
| seems to be to annoy and embarrass him
| Miles must go or Root will. The presi-
dent will retire Miles and stand by the
secretary Of war. The cabinet agrees WIFE
the president In this determination.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
ST. PETER LAUGHS
Nothing in the Story That Juror
Rachel Was Dragged.

Special to The Journal.
St. Peter, Mimi, April 4.-Everyone
here is laughing at the latest cock and.
bull story in relation to the insanity and
death of Anton Rachel juror in the
Tanke case. 1t was alleged that drugs
were given the juror by persons inter
ested in the case, the trial of Tanke fol
the murder of John Wellner, and that he
died from the effects. Sensational dis
closures were promised.
The whole story is groundless kache
was Of an eXcitable nature and the straI
of the trial was too much for him. He
became raving maniac and was slightly
injured while friends were trying to con-
troll him, at a hotel here. Later he was
taken to the asylum and given good care
but nothing could save him. The insinua'
ton that something was to be gained BY
removing him from the jury is puerile
and it is not believed for a moment tina
he was drugged or misused for any sucl
purpose Rachel has a brother here IL
the tailoring business.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04

The latter is disputed territory on, the
Turco- Persian boundary, which has never
been demarcated Moreover, Darcy's en-
terprise will create rivalry to the Russian
industry, which supplies most Of the oil
in the southern Persian and gulf regions.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04

$780, They now hold a ticket which
they declare won 81, 400. They assert that
the policy company not only refused to
pay the bet, but that it induced Manager
Nally, of the Postal Telegraph company,
to discharge them. The facts have been
laid before Assistant Corporation Council
Fyffe, who has sought In vain for in
formation about policy shop headquarters.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
DANGEROUS DISCOVERY
OIL Resources in Persia That May
Not BE Utilized.
Ne.v York. Sos. speeta1 ss.vtos

Not be Ut1l1zed.
Ne.o YorE Sss,s Special Sssvtos
London, April A dispatch to the
Morning Post from Bagdad says that an
Australian millionaire named Darcy has
obtained an important concession to work
the oil belt in southern and southwestern
Persia. Surveying has begun for pipe
line $50 miles long from the Kerkah val
ley to Mohammerah. The oil Is believed
to be purer than the Russian and to be in
abundant quantity.
There are, however, drawbacks to the
enterprise, not only in the climate, bad
unsettled country and wild tribes, but in
possible International complications. The
oil belt follows the Kerkah valley to be-
Yond Bushirs, ana the starting point Of
1.-The pipe line ID ct Kasrishirin, IN zobah
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
TRACKED BY TELEGRAPHERS
headquarters of Policy COmpanie,
Located to Their Cost.

Located to Their Cost.
Special to The Journal
Chicago, April Awhile city detectives
have spent several months in a vain eff
fort to stop policy in Chicago, Chicago
telegraph operator and another in Cin-
cinnati hit the wealthy Frankfort and
Kentucky company hard. The police can
not find where the drawing of the policy
companies is held. The telegraph OPP
orators not only found where the mair
offices of the company are situated, but
easily made the personal acquaintance OF
Frankfort and Kentucky officials, both in
Chicago and the Ohio metropolis.
The operators, by cleyerly planned
and more cleverly executed coup. Sue
ceeded in mulcting the Frankfort and
Kentucky companies to the amount OF
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
s,o to california ana Return.

The Minneapolis & st. Louis R. r. will
sell tickets April 2O-27, May 27-June 8.
good for so days, at $50. The only line
With morning sleeper from Minneapolis
making direct connections with through
trains at Omaha and Kansas City. For
full information call on w. L. Hathaway.
G. T. A., No. Washington avenue 8,
Minneapolis, or F. P. Rutherford, G. T.
A., 1893 Robert street. st. Paul.
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Cheap Rates to lCalifornta.

Tickets on sale daily at Minneapolis &
St. Louis railroad Offices, at rate Of 1920
from St Paul or Minneapolis to Los An
geles, San Francisco, San Deigo, etc. Best
and most direct route.
Call No. / Washington avenue S, Min
neapolis; 1898 Robert street, st. Paul. for
tickets and berths.
: y ~ g )
Those unhappy persons who suffer from
nervousness and dyspepsia should use
made expressly for sleepless, nervous,
dyspeptic sufferers. Price IS cents.
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500 Line Homeseekers, Rates.

Very low one way and round trip rates
to points in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Al
berta, British Columbia and the Pacific
coast. For particulars apply to ticket
office. 119 South Third street.
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f.. w. Grove.

This name must appear on every box OF tn
genuine Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets, tn
remedy that cures cold In one day rs cents
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Not "Nominated I'm the Bond"

Mr.. KEENAN, charges that there was IN the
agreement clause providing that commit
tee Of the Indians was to go with the agent
and: designate the "unoccupled'' lands. 1t
will be seen that there is no such provision.
Major Bingenheimer denies that there was
sucn an understanding, either written or YER
bal He says that several Indians came to
him and suggested that such committee be
appointed, but that no bargain was made
His explanation was made after the leases had
been drawn and were about to be executed
I knew absolutely nothing about it, and by
my direction the descriptions Of the land tc