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Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-08

Venezuela bases its claims;

/. On the islands proximity to the coast
OF Guiarta, from which IL Is distant only
three miles. claiming that 1t is a tenet of
international law that a country COM
mands water within marine league of its
coast
2. That the International Law institute
has defined the territorial sea as six miles,
whereas the island Of Patos is more than
ten miles from Trinidad, the nearest Brit
3. That the treaty of March, 1s45 "ex-
plicitly confirms the title of Venezuela over
al the islands near her coast which were
tive period of Venezuelan independence y
In support of this contention the Venezue-
Ian authorities produce a letter from the
Spanish minister for state in 1873 in which
he denies that royal sanction was given to
the concession to the Ayuntanmiento of
and Monos-
Great Britain claims in reply:
/. That when Trinidad was conquered in
1871 sovereignty over Patos was also OBJ
tafned and so recognized by the Madrid
2. That Patos has. remained in the peace
full possession of Great Britain for more
than a century during seventy years of
which time Venezuela advanced no counter
claim and that the official map of Codazzi
colors the island of Patos the same as
Trinidad, indicating that both belong TO
the same country.
To this Venezuela replied by stating that
the map of Codazzi was so old as to make
1t impossible to distinguish the various
colors and produced other maps by the
same author which give Patos to Venezuela.
Being unable to'agree on even the minor
points of the controversy the British minis
ter near the close of last year informed
the Venezuelan foreign ONCE that he would
make no further representations in the
matter as there was nothing to be gained
by continuing the correspondence.
It is understood that President Castro
will ask that the question be settled by ar
bitration, proposition to which the Brit
ish government will hardly accede in view
of it's contention that the ownership of
Patos is SO clearly British as not to furnish
a suitable subject for arbitration.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-08
CUBAN CHILDREN ARE FREED
Leave Ellis Island on Their Way to
California TheOsOphist
school.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE eleven Cuban
children who arrived recently on their way
TO the Point Iona school were released to-
day from Ellis Island and taken to Jersey
City. where they started on their journey
across the continent.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-08
BRITAIN WARS FOR ISLAND
Wages WOrdy Battle with Venezuela Over
A. Possession of Patos.
81 q :1RIEs CLAIM SOLE OWNERSHIP
Rival Cor set Forth in omcIaI
Publication Ad May Possibly,
Though Not Probably, Form
Subject of Arbitration.

WASHINGTON Dec. 7.--Included in Ven
ezuela's yellow Book" for 1901 are the let
ters exchanged between London and Car
acas last year regarding the ownership of
Patos island. which has been in dispute for
many years.
The question was reopened by the action
Of the Venezuelan gunboat Augusti in jan
uary, 1901, in capturing certain British
subjects on the island.
When the Caracas authorities we're called
TO account by the London Foreign ONCE, the
former replied by renewing their long
standing claim to Patos, and a diplomatic
controversy extending throughout the year
was the result.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-08

LONDON. Dec. while Etruria was as
cending the Mersey on Saturday morning
Colonel Lamb. a member Of the English
Rife team, returning from the irterna-
tienal competition in Canada. committed
suicide.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-08
TRAGEDY is NOW COMPLETE
Harry JOhnstOne, the Actor Murderer,
Follows His Victim TO the
Grave.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. barry John
stone, who killed Kate Hassett OF Keith's
Stock company, died today at the Hanne-
mann hospital from his .self-innicted in
juries.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-08
House VIII Adjourn.

The house will adjourn soon after assemb-
ling tomorrow as a mark of respect to Mr..
Reeds memory. This course was decided
on tonight
Immediately after approval of the Journal,
James s. Sherman IN. W will be recog-
nized TO present a resolution OF condolences
and the house, after adopting 1t. will ad-
journ.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-08
Austrian Emperor Wen Again.

VIENNA. Dec. 7.-Emperor Francis Jo-
seph has now recovered from his recent at
tack OF lumbasO and is expected 10 return
TO Vienna this week.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-08
CARDINAL DEFENDS FRIARS

This makes the third portion Of the Texas
boundary line in dispute.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-08
MANILA FREE TO cHINAMEN
CeIestinIs Resident In United states
May Move to Philippine
Islands.

MANILA, Dee. 7.-Customs Collector
shuster rules that Chinese residing in the
United States may enter the Philippine
Islands. His decision says:
Any Chinaman legally resident In the
mainland territory of the United States is
entitled to enter the Philippines, irrespec-
tive of class or occupation, provided he
comes by a reasonably direct route and uses
due diligence in coming.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
Moot Point of Law.

An English writer gives good eX-
ample of those bubbles in legal prac-
tice that have sort of fascination for
certain minds. Some years ago, while
travelling on the continent, he met the
principal lawyer for the government
Of one of the principalities, who told
him of curious legal question. 1t had
reference to railway station at the
boundary between two principalities.
Some one standing outside the win
dow of the ticket office had put his
hand through and robbed the till in
side. The boundary line lay between
where the thief stood and the till, SO
that he was actually in one territory
while the crime was committed in the
other. Here was nice nut for the
gentlemen learned in the law to crack.
Which of the municipalities should I'M
dertake the prosecution of the culprit
At it they went in good earnest, and
the arguments or either side were long
and vehement, till the whole case was
embalmed in many volumes. At last
one side yielded so far as to say:t
1--WE will permit you, as an act OF
courtesy, to prosecute, while at the
same time reserving all our sovereign
rights"
At this point of the recital I asked,
"And how did the prosecution end?'
"Ah! that is quite another matter .
said my friend "There was no prose
cution: we were only arranging what
we should do when we caught the rob-
ber but we never caught him.
Youths COMPANION.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31

punished the champion that it was q
foregone conclusion among the specta-
tors that the C0rnishman must win.
Bleeding from a number of gashes in
the face apparently weakening, and
clearly unable to cope with Fitzsim-
mons superior skill, Jeffries delivered
two lucky punches as Fitzsimmons
paused in his fighting to speak to him,
and turned the tide.
Settles 1t for Fitzsimmons.
The battle was brief, but notevoT-
thy, and will live in pugilistic his
i tory.
Il will never fight again." said the
battle-scarred veteran of the ring,
when he had sufficiently recovered to
talk. ''The fight was won fairly, and
to the best man belongs the laurels."
''YOu are the most dangerous man
alive" said Jeffries in return, land
consider myself lucky to have won
when did,
Fitzsimmons had been fighting at
a furious gait, cool and deliberate and
chopping the champion to pieces with
the terrific rights and lefts that have
made him famous. 1t was the draught
horse and the racer from the tap of
the gong. When the MEN came togeth-
err Fitz appeared rather worried, but
upon the opening OF the first round he
assumed an air of absolute confidence,
and fought with the deliberation of the
general that he is. AS early as the
second round Fitz had jeff bleeding
profusely from mouth and nose.
Caught Off His Guard.
In the eighth round, under a series
of hot exchanges, FitzSimmOns paused
with his guard down and spoke to the
champion. The latterS reply consisted
OF the two terrific blows that brought
back to him the ffeeting championship,
and forever removed the veteran Fitz-
simmons from the fistic arena.
One was in the stomach and
the other in the jaw, and Fitz-
simmons went down on his back. He
came up slowly, but before he could
get upon both feet the referee counted
ten, and the fight was over.
FitzsimmOns took his defeat with
amazing good cheer. He walked to the
center of the ring and, raising his
hand, addressed the multitude.
ssThe best man has won. Had l
beaten Jeffres tonight I would have
conceded him the championship and
forever retired. retire just the same
now, but without having accomplished
my ambition. / am satisfied"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
About Your Tailored Gown.

When your tailor-made gown is or
dered insist upon two things. First
have only two seams in the back of the
jacket, and have these start from the
armholes and slope toward each other
until they are only two or three inches
apart at the waist line. This will give
your figure the brOad-shouldered. slim
wasted effect that is now fashionable.
Above all things, do not allow the tail
or to make the seams run from the
shoulder seams to the waist. This is
very old-fashoned and unbec0ming to
all figures, even to very stout ones
The second thing to insist on is the
stitched strap that finishes all we'll
tailored skirts in the back. This
strap is the imperative covering to
the opening of the new tailormade
skirts.-Chicago Post.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31

County Supt. Nye is a candidate for
denomination at the hands of the Re-
publicans in convention next month
and that he will be given unanimous
endorsement goes without saying
Grant county schools are ahead of any
in che state for systematic work and
perceptiye advancement and this is
due in great measure to Mr.. Nye's
shillful management of affairs in this
department. Mono better qualified
can be found and his denomination and
reelection is assured.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
Mark Twain's "Engine."

Captain Thomas Bixby, under whom
Samuel L. Clemens Twain
served as pilot and engineer on the
old Mississippi river boat Swallow, has
given in a New Orleans paper the
following description Of the engine OF
the Swallow:
''The craft was little, shaky af-
fair, which piled between st. Louis
and Cairo 1t had a stern wheel, a
place for freight and passengers, a
pilot-house and a place on what may
be called the pilot deck for the en-
CINE.
THAT engine went aboard when it
was needed, and only then. 1t burned
no wood or coal, but ate a powerful
mule named Jerry, which worked a
treadmill that propelled the boat. Sam
uel Clemens was chief engineer and
pilot
HE had a system of signals which
was effective and ingenious. By pull
ing cord he could raise a head of
cabbage just out of reach of the mule.
The engine would start and begin
to walk after it, and the boat foated
majestically down or up the river, as
the case might be.
without desiring to be personal,
X will say that Jerry was one of the
most intelligent animals | ever met.
His voice was more on the order of a
foghorn than whistle, being too much
barytone for the latter. When Sam
uel wanted to whistle for landing he
just hit Jerry with stick. YOUTHS
Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31

1t seems rather a serious subject /
have drifted into, but after all it's
worth While to consider whether
there are not compensations in life
and that is what consideration of
this kind amounts to. Which would
you rather be? A fool, always the
same because incapable of being
anything else, or not fool and suf-
fer from occasional fits of depres-
sion due to deeper feelings than the
fool possesses?
Another illustration, and I'll let it
go at that There is the same diff
ference between the politician and
statesman. The man who is in pol
itics for what he can make out of it,
the man who never puts his heart
into the game, but plays it only
with his long head and keen eye to
the main chance, never experiences
the stress and suffering of the states
man who realizes that his duty to
the country and the people he serves
is the most serious thing in life. It's
matter Of temperament after ALL
Men and women we meet every day,
Who will say,
They are always the same as you see en-
They never are blue.
Like me or like you,
Though taxes be due
The next day,
And whose life is a constant tie deum.
Haven't you often been tempted to cuss,
Or do wuSS
When such people cannot understand
Why you should be Sad
Or feeling quite bad,
And driven near MAD
BY their fuss.
Or their manner so childiika and bandr
Take heart though, my friend; when we're
blue
Me and you
Science says it proves that we have Drains
Gray matter a lot
Both of us have got,
And the fellow who's not
Ever blue
Would likely stay out when it rains.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
Oklahoma Amenities,

George Peck returned the other day
from Oklahoma territory, where he
had iourneyed to sell few furnaces
and other things. He relates an Incl
dent of the wooIly west that is charac-
teristic and quite Oklahomesque. Mr.
Peck is nothing if not diplomatic, and
when he found that the president OF
the school board in this territorial
city was also the owner of the hotel he
decided to stop at his hosiery. For
why? Because he wanted to get his
furnaces into the school buildings in
the place, and-well, that's another
story.
Mr.. Peck found the hotelkeeper to
be a whole-souled, jolly fellow, and
there's nobody any more jovial than
Peck himself. They visited the
schools, the president of the board
first putting on long tailed coat, say
ing:
s'She adds dignity, an then, she
hides my gun, which are bad exam
pie, 'afOre them children. / don't ap-
prove of anybody under IA carryin' a
gun"
After returning to the hotel from
the visit Of inspection the president of
the board now transferred into a land
lord, said:
.sPeck, you're a good Teller. You
amt goin' to let your light be hid I'M
der bushel, Peck?'
mo, 1 amt" said Peck, rather du-
bious as to the compliment.
'sWell, / tell you what I'm goin' to
do fer you. Bein' as you're good
Teller, I'm a-goin' t. have clean sheets
put on your bed! Dad burn me, II |
ain'tw-Ciucinnati Enauirer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31

Consistent Republicans throughout
the county scott at the idea of refusing
County Clerk Griffis and County
Treasurer Scheinpdug the customary
denomination and second torn in their
respective positions, and none but
chronic aspirants for spoils and few
political soreheads advance arguments
contrary to this course. Capable, OBJ
liging and painstaking their constitu-
ents will see to it that they are favored
with two years more in office.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31

John G. Spoorer has earned and is
deserving of the confidence of the Re-
publican party of the state. He will
continue in the confidence of the par
ty if those who believe in him and
recognize his worth will take nand in
securing members of The legislature
pledged to his support. He has earned
this support and we hope that all true
Republicans viii come forward and in
sist on candidates for Legislative hon
ors pledging The mselves to vote TO re-
tain his services
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
Story by Secretary Shaw.

ga friend of mine," said Secretary
Shaw the other day, "gave dinner
once to some rural gentlemen from
Iowa. He furnished them the best of
everything, tarrapin and canyasbacS
duck. The climax of the feast was a
watermelon into which had been emp
tied two quarts of champagne. When
the farmers began to eat the watermel-
on they smiled and smacked their lips.
and ate again. Then, of one accord.
they slipped into their pockets.a hand
full of the seeds. They wanted to raise
some Of che same kind Of melon on
their own farm land. indianapolis
News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
One More Invasion,

Respecting the threatened invasion
of the English silver market by Amer
lean silversmiths, the fact is the Ameri
can manufacturers will not be able to
compete in the matter of prices with
the English productions. IN some
classes of small silverware they can
produce cheaper than we, but in the
better class goods there is little doubt
that our own high-class silversmiths
can very easily compete with them
London Jeweler.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
GOOD BOOKS TO READ.

At the present day all right-minded
citizens concede that the public
library is as essential q factor of the
community as the public school. The
latter begins the education that the
library's mission is TO continue
plants the rudiments of knowledge
that the library nourisheth and en-
hances the growth and development
Of. If the majority depended entirely
upon the information gained IN the
few years of school life the fund OF
knowledge would be small. During
the school days the public school and
the public library work hand in hand,
and after the school days are ended
the public library is the great unlver-
sity. in which every man, woman and
child, rich orApoor, is entitled to a
scholarship. The great responsibility
resting upon each and all is to make
proper use of this great opportunity.
Within our own city, accessible to
everyone, is library recently started
that now contains nearly l,4OO vol
umes. A small library in one sense,
but in another a large one, for what
wealth of information is contained
within those volumes. IThls library
NAV be used as a means of education;
used conscientiously. and moderately
as means off profitable recreation
and amusement; used or abused, as
means Of literary dissipation"
We all know how it may be used as
means of education. We know that
upon the shelves are to be found the
great thoughts Of great men, the brain
work of generations, summed up. IN
words so simple that it may be ours
for the taking.
By those who use a library as
means of profitable recreation and
amusement are meant those who read
wholesome books of fiction of some
literary merit ,And as we'll, other read
able works of an educational value.
AS, for example, take popular work
Of fiction-sB lennerhassett." One who
is not altogether willing to take the
authors opinion of Aaron Burr and
Alexander Hamilton, exactly as his
own, would consult biographies OF
Burr and Hamilton and histories OF
the times, and through such enter
tanning research learn many a valuable
fact relative to his country's history.
Using a library as a means Of Cit
erary dissipation" is done by those
natrons who draw exclusively books
of current fiction, that they rapidly
devour. as long as the supply will
meet with the demand, and, when the
supply is exhausted, their reading
ceases until new booksl-are added.
Those who ravenousiy watch to pounce
upon eachsnew book of fiction as soon
as it leaves the press, do mental INJURY
to themselves in one OF two ways; they
either acquire habit OF forgetting
that must weaken their mental vlgor,
or. if they remember all this trash,
they heap up literary refuse pile on
their minds that would completely
smother any wise or original thought
that might have arisen there, and, of
the two evils, the habit of forgetting
should be preferred,
Thus it remains with us to prove
whether or no the public library is
made to do it's prescribed work; wheth-
er we use or abuse privileges.
Cen. Rragg's career in Cuba is evil
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
HEAVY SHIPMENTS OF CORN
Under Pressure of Recent Squeeze Chics-
go Sends 100000 Bushels
Down the Lakes.

Down the Lakes.
Chicago, July 29.-During the pres
ent month, under the pressure of the
corn corner, Chicago has sent over A.
100000 bushels of corn down the lakes
The figures represent the cargoes of
over seventy craft Over 100000
bushels have been shipped since the
famous settlement day" of the corn
clique With the departure of the
steamer Mauch Chunk, carrying tins
biggest grain cargo Of the season. 2l0,-
600 bushels, loaded at South Chicago,
the activity in the city's elevators
ceased, and indications are that the
rush of the yellow cereal will soon end.
Buffalo has been the unloading port
for far the greater part of the ship
ments, though COlhngwOod and Depot
Harbor have caught number of large
cargoes, which have been forwarded
over Canadian railroads, only to re-
enter the United States and be shipped
RI FurOrn
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
Cornishman Meets Final Defeat
in the Ring at the Hands
of Jeffries.
EIGHTH BOUND DOES TIE TRICK
Fight Ali Bob's Way Till He Catches
Two Let's,
One Is In the Stomach and the Other
in the Jaw and He G ,es Down
and Is Counted Out
for Keeps. Il

San Francisco, July 26.-After fight
ing battle of eight rounds that was
fraught with brilliant and courageous
work Robert FitzSimmonS last night
forfeited his last claim to the heavy
weight championship. He was knocked
to the floor by James Jeffries and
counted out after he had so badly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
Chas. K. Adams, former Wisconsin
University president, died at Redlands,
CAL, Saturday.

The recent report from the pension
department. shows total of 50,308 per-
sons on the pay rolls of the govern
ment in this line, and that 100000
was paid out to them during the fiscal
year ending June Both.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
Minister KILLED by lightning.

greensboro, KY, July 29.-Rev. S.
o. Mitchell, ] aptist minister whose
home was near Louisville. KY, was in
stantly killed by lightning near
Yelvington, KY. He and his wife
were visiting his brother-in-law,
George III. Malson, and he was In the
ward feeding some chickens when the
holt struck him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
Shots at Random.

Rattle Drained people have many
marked advantages over their more
seriously minded fellows, if what |
read be true. An eminent scientist,
i(by the way, what becomes OF all
the scientists who are not Cninent?)
recently published the result Of his
Investigations upon that, to me, al
ways interesting subject OF mental
peculiarities. The savent in ques-
ton is an expert on lunacy and finds
matter for useful study along lines
leading in that direction. He ven
lures with that delightful ease of
the professional investigator, upon
some remarkable statements, not
the least striking Of which is that
the man possessed Of the weakest
mentality, that is, the less brilliant
reasoning ability, is less likely to
fits of dependency.
'sYokels," to use the homely word
expressive of the bucolic genus, he
says, are rarely creatures of moods.
Their mental makeup does notallow
Of their attaining to any marked
degree of exhilaration, / suppose
barring over-indulgence in stimu-
lants, in which event they become
exhiIarated to the knife-wielding or
shotgun firing stage. Per contra,
according to the scientist, they rare
ly, if ever, are in danger of undue
depression. Their minds remain at
the one dead level of contentment.
You will doubtless remember the
wonderful characters of country
pumpkins with which Thomas Har-
dy's novels abound. Men and wom-
en- devoid eff emotion, "chaw ba-
cons" who resemble in demeanor
and easy-goingness the animals with
which they have SO much to do.
One can't imagine such men becom-
ing unduly excited and never knew
one who seemed any more stolid on
one day than on another, although
I confess I have generally attributed
that fact to the evident impossibility
of their exceeding the stage OF stol-
idity to which they attain every
day.
But my scientist says this equable
temperament of the country bump
kin, disadvantageous though it may
be in many ways, is his safeguard
against melancholla. Suicides from
chat cause, quoting again from the
authority, are almost unknown
among the farm tailoring classes OF
England. Jealousy or hate may
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
Naval Fight Near Panama.

Colon, July 25.-Another naval bat
tie occurred near Panama. 1t is report
ed that the government vessels were
victorious. The government gunbOat
Boyaca has returned TO Panama It
will 60 to sea shortly. TIE United
States gunboat Machias has started for
Hayti.