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DINNER CHINESE FASHION.
New Years Spread with Chinese
Fare, Gin and Slave Girls Galore.
Los Angeles Times.

OF the many days of the Chinese New
Year gala season set apart for different
celebrations yesterday belonged 10 the mer-
chants. They say 1t was a day long TO be
RENE bered for its Teasing and good cheer
The Kong Chew Tong, or Merchants So
or the year-and there have been many big
ones Of late-a tremendous, noisy affair
with music and gin and slave girls. George
Lem, the ApablaSa-street merchant had
charge Of il, and il was no stingy meal
lasting. with recesses, from o'clock in the
afternoon until the small hours OF morning
Two hundred Cinnamon sat down 10 the
feast. The oldest and most influential the
sleekest and most prosperous merchants Of
the region gathered together sedately at
several exclusive tables while the lesser
members of the Kong Chew Tong and the
invited guests from the country round made
merry with the girls and the music.
The banquet was straight, unadulterated
Chinese through and through. There was
nothing 10 detract from its barbaric din
and smell and splendor. The only white
men present during the exclusive festivi-
ties when the painted girls were in evil
dence, were reporter and one OF the old
habitues and guides OF the Little China Of
Los Angeles.
ty slave girls-unfortunate. rented things.
pretty, some Of them, and gOrgeously ar
rayed-who played cards with the men and
smoked cigarettes, saw that the tiny glass
bowls OF wicked gin were Kept filed and
generally added zest TO the occasion. They
were furnished 20 the society by the rich
Chinatown slave owners.
1t was funny TO see how they carried
on and coQuetted with the young galiants
and sometimes the ole ones, the rich old
ones who had gin-loosened purse strings
They piled their fans with effect, rapping
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my children died with IT, One OF the boys is
of It."
The idea that the President can order
anything done he desires is illustrated by
a letter addressed TO him by a lady who
wrote:
IS pension has been increased to sl4
per month. Now, what l want to ask Is
that you please ask Congress to appro-
pirate enough TO build them a house and
enable them once more TO be independent.
l realize that il is asking great favor of
you. Nevertheless, 1 feel that 1 want TO do
something TO help this cause. / assure you
ne is a worthy Christian soldier OF the -
q. V. l."
For unadulterated nerve some of the
claims filed unequaled. One A applies
as the dependent brother OF G.. A. The sol
der, aged eighteen, enlisted Dec. u, 1858,
and died Jan. 9, 1865 The alleged dependent
brother was born Oct 20. 1859. four years
nine months and eleven days after the sol
diers death. He filed a claim for pension
In 1889 He has not yet been pensioned.
The champion bounty jumper was Sam
uel w. Downing, for whose services a de-
pendent relative filed a claim for pension.
While all the enlistments are not known,
ine government 1ll has record OF the fol
LOWING: July, 1868, amount unknown; Aug.
10, 1853, $500; Aug. 70, 1853. 1915; Aug. 81,
1853, 1880; Sept. :, 1853, $3.50; Sept. 10, 1853.
$50; Sept: Is. 1863. 1915: Oct. !. 1863. $s75;
1863. $50 Dec. IL. 1863 1915; Dec. 81, 1863,
SSOc; Feb. Is, 1854 $50; March Is, 1864. $3.50;
April l, 1864, 500; June 80, 1854, $500. Total,
$3.50
He was tried, convicted and executed by
general court-martial at Alexandria, Va,
sept. 16, 1864 His method OF procedure
after enlisting was to change his suit for
an ofhcer's fine uniform, which he carried
with him in a valise, and when al a safe
distance again re-enlist. Unfortunately,
when he enlisted in June, 1854 he was rec
ognzed with TO him fatal results
A case recently appealed to and decided by
the secretary of the interior stands alone
The claimant, Susan Smith, was convicted
of the murder of her husband. in May, 1852
sentenced TO imprisonment for life. and
pardoned in September, 1894. Shortly after
her discharge she applied. under the act OF
June q, 1890, for a pension on account OF
the service of the soldier she murdered. II
was promptly rejected by the Pension Of
fee. She then appealed TO the secretary OF
the interior, who promptly approved the
former rejection on the ground that. as
claimant. by the willful murder of the sol
der. created the condition of widowhood
she is without title as widow under said
act.
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rive at his new home in Bloomington. Ind.
Already ne has started a wonderful show
Ing for this year.
Ernest McHafie. OF Stiiesville. Ind, ar
rived at the Indianapolis track last week
vyith King Red 2:201t. who will be fitted for
a fast mark this fall Mr.. McHafie will also
send two more horses to the track here
soon.
Pat Dickerson stepped Kingmont, 2:2sA,
a mile in 2.16iz. and Orphan, 2:29A, a mile
fn e.fT at the Indianapolis track last week
Roth Of these trOtters will start AT Koko-
mo- Red Star. 2:121z, viii also start in the
eas-belt meetings.
Cresceus. 2-02t1. IS now at Cleveland. and
arpears 10 be in fine condition. He has had
no work this spring. having simply logged
at the farm and UP 10 "A few days ago had
rot been stepped a mile IN four minutes He
was given his first mile one morning last
week by Mr.. ketchum, and ne showed that
p. could simply fly He broke away like
4 runner and stepped the first eighth in
\ little better than sixteen seconds, and
e. spite Of all Mr.. ketchum could do to keen
him back the horse went the mile in 2:24
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MANHATTAN BEACH RACES.
WalthOur Wins the Twenty-MiIe in
2Ss52 2-5-Other Results

2SE52 2-5-Other Results.
NEW YORK. July 26.-The twenty mile
motor-paced bicycle race at the Manhattan
Beach track to-day was won by Bobby
Walthour, of Atlanta. who defeated Howard
Freeman, of Portland, ore, by two laps
and 200 yards, the track measuring one
third OF a mile around. Floyd Mcfarland,
OF San Jose. Cal, finished third, but quit
two laps before the twenty miles had been
completed. Benny Monroe, of Memphis
Tenn, also took part in the race, but met
with an accident during the eighth mile
which compelled him TO retire from the
contest. Monroe ran third up TO this time
when his pedals struck the track and he
was thrown heavily. His back and shout
derS were badly scratched, but he was not
seriously injured. Marcus l.. Hurley, of the
New York A. c., won the half mile open
and tWO-mile handicap races for amateurs
Jockey Winnie O'ConnOr rode a fve-mile
exhibition behind pace and acquitted him
self very creditably, his time being Sis 1-5.
Summary:
Third-mile Novice Final Heat-Won by
Charles A. Harden, New York; Andrew
Club, Bloomfield, second Thomas De So
10, Brooklyn. third. Time. :42 2-5.
Half-mile open (Amateur)-Won by Mar
Gus l. Hurley. New York a. c.; NJ L. Dove,
Calumet Club. second; Jack Townsend
BayOnne. third Time 1907 2-5.
F1ve-mIle Motor Bicycle Race-WOn by
s. w. Anderson. Brooklyn, Walter I. Smith,
second. Time, S:O7
Two-mile Handicap Contemplation by
Marucs l.. Hurley (scratch); W. j. Van
derveer, COney Island TO YARDS, second !;
Charles Kastendiek, X. c. W., Brooklyn
Cl5 yards). third; c. w Stobbie BROOKLYN
go yards). fourth. Time 4:2S 10
Twenty-mile MotOr-paced-WOn by r.
Walthour, Atlanta, Ga; Howard Free
man, Portland, Ore, second; Floyd Nc
Farland, San Jose, Cal, third. Time,
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MAJOR" TAYLOR FOURTH
LOST THE HALF-MILE CHAMPION
SHIP BY SEVERAL LENGTHS.
Won by Kramer, with KimbIe Second
-Two-Mne Handicap Takeh by
John IT. Fisher by Inches.

NEWARK, n. J., July 26.-At the Walls
burg bicycle races to-day Kramer won
the half-mile championship, with Kimble
second, Lawson third and Major Tay-
Tor fourth, after hard struggle. Walter
Smith won the motor-paced race after los
ing the second heat. Teddy Ellington
captured the one-mile amateur champion
ship Of New Jersey rather easily. Kramer
lodged the professional handicap, but
Major" Taylor started and finished third
". S. Fem captured the consolation race
with something to spare. Summaries:
Half-mile national championship (pro-
fesslona): Won by Frank l.. Kramer, East
Orange; Owen S. Kimble, Louisville, sec
ond; Iver Lawson. Salt Lake, third; Ma
Jor' Taylor, Worcester, fourth. Time,
l:l6 20 Won by, half a length; same be-
One mile. New Jersey State championship
(amateuD: Won by Teddy" Ellington,
VailsbGcg; J. Zanes, Newark, second; Geo.
by length; two lengths between second
and third.
Motor-paced match race (amateur) be-
tween Walter Smith, Brooklyn, and Fred
Dahlke Buffalo. First heat three miles.
won by Smith In SIG 40; second heat. five
miles, won by Dahlke in S:31 is. Third
heat, three miles and race. won by Smith
Two-mile handicap professionally: Won by
John T. Fisher. Chicago Sixty YARDS: r.
Keegan. Lowell C210 yards. second; Major
Taylor, Worcester (scratch). third; William
Martin, Australia G20 YARDS, fourth. Time
4.07 3-5. Won by inches.
F'ive-mile handicap (amateur) Won by
Charles Schlue, Newark 60 yards; George
Glasson, Newark (scratch), second; Ted
dy' Ellington, New York ~ c. (scratch),
third: j. p Brown, Irvington 600 yards,
fourth. Time, 1:25 20. Won by a length;
half "A length between second and third.
Ian prize won by A G. Spain, Bloomfield
AGO yards.
one mile consolation professionally: Won
by w. S. Fem. Waterbury; L. Z. Mott
ling. Boston, second; c. c. Schneider, New
York. third; Floyd Krebs, Newark, fourth.
Time, 2:00 2-5. Won by a length; half a
la,cth hafv-nnn second and fhird
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CHICAGO BOWLERS HERE
INDIANAPOLIS TEAM DEFEATS THEM
TWO OUT OF THREE.
The visitors Could Do Nothing in the
First Two Games-Leave for
Louisville.

The Chicago bOwlers who spent last even
f0g here received warm welcome at the
Marion Club alleys. where they bowled a
local picked team. The Chicago men were
not Indifferent to the result of the contests,
ba- they did not bowl with their usual en-
ergy and skill until the last game when
they found that they would have TO do
their best TO take one game. The first two
games went 70 the home team easily. but
i1 the third the Chicagos set a pace that
the Indianapolis bowlers lost. The games
were witnessed by Mayor BOokwalter, pres
ident Of the American Bowling Congress.
who was one Of a large number Of local
bowlers who welcomed the visitors.
The Chicago team included some of that
city's most noted bowlers. Fred Strong, OF
the Tossettis, won the individual champion
ship at the Buffalo tournament last spring.
II. A. kiene, who is the bowling and golf
reporter of the Chicago Record Herald.
won the championship of the Illinois Bowl
ing Association last spring A E. Woods,
who travels for the Brunswick Balke-Col-
lender Company, hold an average OF over
200 for twenty weeks in the Chicago League
last season. Peter Howley bowls with Cap
tain AnsOns team and is one Of the Chi
CagO "steadies." Ted Hartman, who took
Brils place in the team is a member of
the City Club of the Sheridan League and
was announced at the Chicago national
tournament. In its team strength the team
Was regarded as one of the best that ever
bOwled here.
THE LOCAL TEAM
The Indianapolis team was composed Of
Tom Carter, champion Of the Indianapolis
Bowling League last season, and Capt. Bob
Bryson, of the Marion Club Whenever a
picked team is made up here It starts with
Bryson. Lee Graf was the champion of
the Independent League, with an average
Of almost 100. and Charles J. Gardner is one
Of the best known and most slzillful bowlers
IN the city W. c.. Buddenbaum is one Of
the best Of the Washington Club members.
They made an excellent team and forced
the ChicagOans TO their most strenuous
efforts.
II looked in the first game as if Snake"
W Gods would have TO win all the games
himself. His big score in that game would
not have helped had il been fifty pins bet
ter kiene was unable TO make his spares
and at the end Of the fifth frame was re-
QueSted by his colleagues to go back to Chi
cago. The first two games were so poor
that the ChiCagOans determined To retrieve
in the last While they rolled a beautiful
score. they still fell short of beating the
home team by sixty pins. The scores.
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Andrew sledd. in July Atlantic.

Andrew Sledd. In July Atlantic.
Here lies the remedy for the condition
OF things as existing IN the south The
white man who wrongs a black and the
white mob that lynches a negro have by
that act and 10 that extent become Grim
inals In the eyes Of the law and should be
dealt with unsparingly such. IL should
no longer be a notable thing 20 &c chron-
icled in the news columns and elicit edi-
torlal comment that several white men
should be punished for the brutal murder
or one inonensive negro IL should be tho
rule And as for lynching. let al the or
GERS Of the law, with all the powers OF the
law, defend the rights and life OF every
prisoner. Surely We who can reVel in the
burning OF a fellow human being and a
section, some OF whose prominent men can
soberly defend such a bloody proceeding
ought not TO have any oversensitive scru-
pies at the shedding OF a little additional
blood. and that too, OF criminals caughE
in the very act OF crime So let orr
marshals have instructions. failure to obey
which shall result In criminal prosecution
10 protect At any cost the accused Who
come into their care
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ONWENTsIA GOLF TOURNEY.
Cups and Medal Won by walter Egnn
and Phelps u. HOyt.

CHICAGO. July 26-The Onwentsia cup
and gold medal We're won by Walter Egan.
Of the Lake Geneva Country Club. on the
thirty-six hole medal play competition OF
the concluding day of the Onwentsia an
nual golf tournament at Lake Forest to-
day. Egan distanced his field. getting a
score of 161 for the double round. seventy
nine Ia the morning and eighty-two In the
afternoon. A score OF 169 was second that
by Chisholm Beach OF Cleveland, o.
though Lawrence Adams. Of GlenvleW had
turned in a full card or leo. Tt was found
however. that Adams had omitted TO lot
down two strokes a. the fourteenth hole
and be was accordingly disqualified.
Phelps b. Hoyt won the Lake Forest Gun
with a score OF Ia in the same competition
that for the Ouwentsia cup, the other
scores between Egan's l6l and HOyt's IL
being made by players under thirty years
OF age. and hence ineligible for the Lake
Forest cup.
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Results at Atlantic City.

ATLANTIC CITY. n. J., July 26.-The BIZ
cycle races at the Coliseum track tonight
resulted as follows:
Two-mile professional tandem race Won
by Thompson and BOake, Canada, by one
foot; BabcOck and Daily, New York, sec
ond. Time. 3:0S.
Unlimited pursuit race. between William
+. King Salt Lake City, and Johnnie Lake
New York: Won by King, in seven miles
and five laps. Time 1905 4-5.
Fifteen-mile professional motor-paced
race: Won by George Leander, Chicago, by
Ia laps; Ray Duer. Buffalo. second Jim
mic Hunter, Newark, third. Time, 25:14 %
TwO-mile professional tandem race be-
tween Sinclair and Zimmerman, the Yale
team. and Thompson and BOake: Won by
the former, by six inches. Time, 2:5S 2-5.
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AMONG THE PENSION RECORDS.
Curious and Interesting Communities
tions Filed There.
Washington Star.


The records Of the pension office contain
many quaint and curious things. Some let
tiers that are intended 10 be pathetic are
written in such way as 10 produce the op-
pOsite effect. a widow, whose husband
claim had been rejected, the War Depart
ment record showing that his alleged disa-
bility existed long before enlistment, wrote
recently:
"Nv husband was terribel bloated in his
stomach. Ii did not look like himself. He
could not stOOp over and straighten up
without helping himself. To ham, beans.
pork. mashed potatoes, eggs. veal, cabbage
his stumac was repulsive. His rheumatism
was the kind called lumbagO-at furst. His
dropsy was terribel; when he died his legs
burst from pressure. He was sweled up as
big as a barrel all over. l ask that he be
taken up and reOpened. I. ). When my
husband came back from the war, | sup
Dorted him on my needle till he died
The claimants sometimes alleSe peculiar
causes for their disabilities. The To-day
soldier OF the war OF the rebellion, who al
leges many diseases as the result or MS pc
ing Obliged TO sleep one night in brick
house that had not been properly Ventilat-
ed is equaled by the Spanish war soldier
who contracted rheumatism, heart disease
and many other disabilities at Fort Non
roe Va in August. 1898. by sleeping one
night on the sSnd without any floor 10 his
tent One ]. w. alleges that at City Point
va in AuriI 1865: we were confined in
stockade. where there was hardly room for
the thousands Of men crowded in there. II
rained most OF the time, the mud and water
was from eight 10 twenty inches deep. and
we were obliged TO lie in the mud at night
T saw them with their bodies nearly envel-
oped in mud and sound asleep, with the
rain pouring down In their faces. For two
nights I bound myself 10 an eight-inch
beam. fourteen or fifteen feet from the
ground"
In all cases where witnesses to incurrence
sign an affidavit written BY some one else
tbev are called on TO state what they ac-
tuailv know OF the case, and some are. in
deed. willing witnesses. One n. r, applied
for a pension. based on chronic diarrhoea-
In RESPONSE TO an Office letter asking as to
continuance OF claimants disability, affiant
j. /. wrote:
The soldier came to my cabin where I
Was working when he returned from the
army and went 10 my house. My whole
family got the diarrhoea from him. One CT
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Madame Janauscheck's strait.
New York Evening Sun

From Saratoga Madame Janauschek has
written a most pittiful letter 20 friends
IN this city. asking II they would undertake.
10 sell for her the collection OF antique Jew
els and cur1os which she has collected dur
ing her long stage career. Her friends de-
clare that Madame Janauschsks deterrni-
nation 10 part with these jewels shows that
she must be In desperate financial straits,
as she had always declared that she would
part Win everything else she had IN the
world before she would let them go The
benefit which vas given for Madame Ian
auschek at Wallack's Theater some tine
ago helped 10 support her for nearly q
year, but since that time she has grown
even more infirrl- and those who know her
best declare that although she does her Ut
most 10 conceal her condition from the
world, the great old actress Is now literally
destitute
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SIr. spearman and the shark.
Chicago Post

The great state OF Indiana IS eNultant
over the prOwess OF Ar. Spesrman. who
caught a shark by the tail while bathing at
Atlantic City. As in the case OF Mark
Twain s Mr. Bemis who shot the COW.
cpearman did not want the shark. but
merely clutched at him in a spirit OF Indi-
ana adventure. Then. realizing that he
Was not cOntending with the bullheadS OF
MS native creek, he struck Justify for home
and mother. implOring aid of the gods and
high olympus, and swiftly pursued by the
shark. which displayed all the activity OF
q New York publisher after an Indiana
author lie was resuced but not before the
shark had severely bitten his wrist. For
tunateiy 81 was not the wrist of his writing
hand, and We presume that he IS able to-
day 20 contribute his share toward the
great and increasing store Of Indiana lit
eTature. In biting an Indiana man on the
wrist this shark showed malciousness
and a contempt for the worlds needs which
viii increase the hostility Of mankind to-
Eard the shark family
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Philadelphia Telegraph.

The conductors room at Broad street
station is a place where good railroad
stories are told. The men go in there after
their train arrives, await orders. and often
swap yarns. The following was told at a
recent seance. "A long time ago when
trains Travelled more slowly than they do
now. and way trains were common, two
high officials got on. intending TO ride out
about thirty miles. They had lot 10 say
10 each other and the train. which stopped
at every woodpile. worried them a good
deal. An Irfshman, recently landed. got
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aboard few miles out and added TO their
annoyance by his persistence in asking
the name Of every station that the train
stopped at. After they had politely ans
wered his questions for a dozen stations
or so, one of them became angry, and said
10 him:
See here, my friend, if you'll kindly
tell me where you're going, I'll see that
you don't get carried by the place
1.-The immigrant reached down into a
capacious pocket and pulled up a ticket
with about twenty coupons attached, the
last of which read Omaha"
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"sIajor" TayIor's Record Broken.

SALT LAKE. Utah. July 26.--In the one
auarter-mile unpaced professional race at
the Salt Palace saucer track, w. G. Fur
man. OF Los Angeles; T. T. Hoffman, of
los Angeles: Johnny Chapman. of At
IanJa, Ca, and ". +. Samuelson, of Salt
Lake, crossed the tape in "A 40 seconds,
break king the worlds record of 25A, held
bv Major Taylor.
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a Good Dog Fight.
Philadelphia Reeord.

II saw a dog fight last Sunday between
a bull terrier and water spaniel that was
a dandy" said Torresdale man yesterday
1T was down at the rivers edge The bull
got good hold on the spaniel just below
the forelegs and shut his eyes as bulldogs
do when they get a firm grip. The spaniel
seemed TO realize that his safety lay in the
water. and. being somewhat the heavier Of
the two. he gradually dragged his an
tagonist 10 the edge and then over into the
was now under water. until 10 was a oues-
ton of either letting so or drowning. He
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western Tennis Tournament.

CHICAGO. July &.-Greigh Collins won
the finals in singles of the Western tennis
tournament BY defeating L. II. Wailner in
three straight sets. 60. o., 60. In the semi
finals I'm doubles Little and Alexander won
from Emerson and Diehl. 6-4, Sc, CT Waid-
ner and Collins defeated T. Emerson and
MiIer,e-i, - b-5. The championship round
IN singles between L. d Little and Collins
viii be played next Tuesday while the
championship in doubles will be on Monday
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standing of the Chess PIavers

HANOVER. Prussia, July 26.-FolIowing
IS the standing OF the masters in the chess
tournament 10 date: Janowski. Marshall.
AIiescs and OIland have each won four
games: Atkins and Wolf. three: Hardelb-
bon. Lovin, Napier and PulsbUry, two and
one-balf. COhn. Popiel and TsChigOrin, two;
Cunsberg. Suechung and Swidersk one
and one-half; COttschalk, one, and Mason
half game.
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finally let go and came TO the surface with
a snort. Then the spaniel seemed TO real
lie that he had the advantage and deter
mined 10 get his revenge. AT every move
of the terrier to swim toward the shore he
intercepted him and succeeded in doing con-
siderable damage with his teeth AT the
end of ten minutes the owner Of the terrier
was glad enough TO assist his exhausted pet
TO the bank The dog seemed to realize that
he had got the worst of ii and sneaked Off
with his tail between his legs"