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Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-10
"SMELTER RETURNS"

A trial ten-ton car shipped 10 Globe Smell
ter. Denver. Colo, gave gross value 1872 ESQ.,,
and net returns S23s. 70. We are now open
ing up this new mine. Our stock can now
be had at FIVE GENTS a SHARE, par
value one dollar. Monthly reports to share
holders. Full information. samples ore
FREE.
THE WILLIAMS FORK MINING & MILL
ING CO., VIM. Buchanan. Sec'y., AZ Bank
Block, Denver, Colo.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-10

II you are interested in
the grain market and will
drop us a postal we will send
you our market letter and
the Chicago Daily Post or
Journal FREE.
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Bee Building,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-10

, On the Produce exchange today the but
ter market was arm; creamertes, l619922tsc;
diaries, 14h92Oc. Eggs, steady, loss on,
cases returned, 2OG2Ohc. Cheese. steady,
10h011ho.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-10
. Indicates Sunday,


The disposition Of the days receipts was
as follows, each buyer purchasing the num-
Der of head indicated:
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-10

Articles.l Open. High. Low. Close. Yes'y,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-10

E~GGs-Firm; fresh, l71kc.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1902-11-01
TBLEGRAPHIC ITEMS

q tue enc.
The Pious Fund has been awarded
the United States; by the Hague
commission.
Severol riots and shooting ARRAYS
have occurred at political meetings
ia Porto Rico.
The New Orleans street car strike
was ended October II, after two
weeks tie-up.
1t is reported that Russell Sage
win retire from business on account
Of failing health.
A hail storm lasting i've minutes,
did $4,000 worth of damage in St.
Louis, Missouri, October ~.
Venezuelan government troops
claim decisive victory over the Rev
olutionary troops at La Victoria.
An attempt to effect a $50, 900, 600
combine of the cotton mills in the
Southern States pro, ed failure.
lis Royal highness, Chowia Maha
Vajeiravudh, Crown Prince of Siam,
is making 4 tour of the United States
The German Government has con-
trived to obtain possession of all the
plans of all the French submarine
boats.
Twenty-Five Macedonian villages
are in revolt in the Balkans, and half
battalion of Turkish troops were
aunihilated.
1t is reported that there are sew
eral German officers on board the
revolutionary gunboat Padilla, act
ing as gunners.
The Nazina gold placer diggings
recently discovered in Cooks Inlet,
District, Alaska, have already turn
ed out over $50, 600.
1t is probable that the Pyranees
will soon be tunnelled to permit the
construction of two railroads connect
ng France and Spain,
A terrible tpphoon has spread dis
| stcr over all the northern part of
Japan, accompanied by tidal wave
| which destroyed many coast villages.
The Porte denies that negotiations
are in progress between Turkey and
4 Russia, relative to closing the Dar-
danelles to all except Russian war
ships.
General James r. Smith Of Califor-
MIA has been appointed member ol
1.-THE Philippine Commission, to sue
ceed Bernard Moses, on January |.
1903.
J General Ere 1erick Grant, who has
Just returned TO California from three
years service in the Philippines
saws that the serious fighting is al
over.
| A general coal miners strike il
threatened in Belgium, the miner
claiming that the advance in the pric
| of coal entities them to an increas
| of wages.
\ Ex-Governor Navarro of Sa
Domingo has revolted and take
possession of Monte Christie, and tn
government is taking pi ompt mea
sures to restore order.
| Embassador Choate and the Amer
can generals Corbin, Wood and Youn
were recently the guests of Kin
Edward at a luncheon in honor {
Lord Kitchener, at Buckingham
Palace. g
The Brauer Line Steamship Con
pany, operating between Philade
phia and Hamburg have purchase
l20,0)0 tons of anthracite coal fro
Germany and 10, 900 tons from Soutl
ern Russia.
John O'Donnell, Nationalist Men
Der OF Parliament of County May
ireland has been sentenced thr'
months Imprisonment at hard labo
on conviction of intimidation and i
citing to boycotting.
The great British fleet maneuve
s ing in the Mediterranean, has be-
suddenly ordered to occupy strateg
positions, and the squadrons at Nal
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-18
Silenced.

Those who make light of religion and
morality seem sometimes, by the very
energy Of their attack, to be getting the
best of it, but now and again they find
themselves worsted by the ready wit
Of some quiet listener. who turns the
tables upon them. Such was the case
with the French students of whom Pc
ter Lombard tells an amusing story in
the Church Times.
An omnibus full of Partisan students
was making its way along the Rue de
Rivoli when priest in his robes of
Office joined the party. The students
hailed the newcomer with delight, and
began at once to tell all the objection
able stories they could recall. The
priest spoke not word till he rose to
get out. Then he said, politely:
''Au revoir, messieurs."
The French Eau revoir' means liter
ally. It'll we see each again. One of
the students evidently had this in mind
when he replied.
"Um," he said, Eve don't want to
meet you again, old dismal"
But, au revoir," repeated the cure;
''we are sure to meet again. am the
chaplain of the Mazas prison"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-18
Recognized Their Old Friend.

The love which English people, espe-
cially British soldiers, feel for Florence
Nightingale has been shown at many
times and in many places. A new and
striking instance of it was recently
given by the Sunday Magazine.
The late Sir John Steel, sculptor to
Queen Victoria, was modelling a bust
of Miss Nightingale, when an officer of
one Of the Highland regiments which
had suffered so cruelty in the Crimea
heard that the bust had just been COM
pleted, and was in Sir Johns studio.
Many Of the men in his company had
passed through the hospital at Scutari,
and he obtained permission from the
sculptor to bring some of them to see
1t. Accordingly, a squad of men one
day marched into the big studio and
stood in line.
They had no idea why they had been
mustered in so strange a place. With
out word of warning the bust was un-
covered, and then, as by one impulse.
the men broke rank, and with cries Of
'tMiss Nightingale! Miss Nightingale"
surrounded the model. and with hats
off cheered the figure of their devoted
nurse until the roof rang.
So spontaneous and hearty and so in
spiring was the whole scene that in
after days Sir John Steel declared it
to be the greatest compliment of his
life
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-18
OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA.
Stripping for the Conflict with Forces
of Nature.

Stripping for the Conflict with Forces
of Nature.
Our last glimpse of civilization was
Grand Island City" a village Of six
or eight houses, on the Platte, in what
is now Hall County, Nebraska. This
was on the 9Th Of June, and a few
days before we had passed through Co.
lumb1s, another paper city. Columbus
boasted an inn, blacksmith shop and
trading post. The passage of the
Loup at that place was accomplished
by means of a rope ferry, for which
service the rerryman, before landing
US on a sand-bar near the farther bank
of the stream. exacted a fee of dol
lar and a half for each team; the cat
tie were swuIn across. The tide of
travel was. so great that we were
obliged to wait all day for our turn to
cross. 1 asked the proprietor of the
ferry if he had had any touch of the
California fever. With a twinkle of
his eye he surveyed his ferry and his
smithy, and said: "Wal, 1 allow this
yere is Californy enough for me-"
Our trail, after leaving the last set
Elements, was strewn with lame and
abandoned cattle ard the discarded
material of those who had preceded
us. AS large companies passed Oh. they
found their burdens lightened by the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-18
A Scotch Sahara.

The fact is not generally known that
there is in the north of Scotland. a
miniature Sahara, some 20 square
miles in extent. From Nairn to the
River Findhorn there is a great ex-
panse of shifting sandhills, known as
the Culbin Sands, which show all the
great peculiarities of a great desert,
and which successfully resist all at
tempts at cultivation. Three centuries
ago the place was a smiling garden
with several farms and a village, all
of which were overwhelmed in a sim
gle night by a great storm of sand.
The remains Of the buildings can still
occasionally be seen when the sand
shifts, and many old domestic articles
have been picked up. Some tragic
stories are still current in the locality
of the wonderful escape Of the inhab-
itants from the binding sand-drift on
that terrible night.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-18
THE
WHITE
CAPS.
Old Organiza-
tion of Lynch
erS Has Given
Place t0a Mu.
tuaf Benefit
Society.

I 1876. the Whitecaps broke into a Jail
and lynched a man awaiting trial on
charge of murder, of which his limo
cence was later proven.
In 1888 prominent farmer was
whipped. He had the gang arrested,
but the jury disagreed and the men
escaped. From that time on for many
years Whitecap outrages were fire.
quent. They became SO common that
at last the people of both Indiana and
Ohio were aroused and an attempt was
made to root out the organization.
Whipping and tarring parties were of
almost nightly occurrence, and the peo-
pie were worked in a perfect frenzy of
terror.
Members Of the original gang of
Whitecaps were rarely arrested and
more rarely convicted. If a White
capper fell into the hands of the law,
it was almost invariably because Of
doing business Independent of the or
iginal organization.
1t was in Harrison County, Ind, that
Whitecapism, as such, sustained its
death blow. In the hills near Corydon
lived a family of poor whites from
Kentucky-father, mother. two sons
and a daughter. One day the father
was found dead in the woods and the
sons were arrested on the charge of
killing him. An examination showed
their innocence and they returned
home. Soon came a warning telling
the family that unless they left the
county within ten days the Whitecaps
would visit them. The warning was
ignored and word was received that
on a certain night the Whitecaps
would make their appearance. The
boys got several shotguns. loaded them
heavily with slugs and hid in a corn
patch near the house. The Whitecaps
came, and while nine of them stood
on the porch, two others went into
the house after the mother and daugh-
ter. Ropes were tied around their
necks and when their screams told the
boys what was going on they opened
fire at the gang on the porch. Six, of
the nine were killed and two others
were terribly wounded. The few re-
naming fled in terror. The boys fed
to Kentucky and have never been mo-
lested.
This lesson was salutary one. Since
that time the Whitecaps have done
nothing but occasionally administer
the CAD to shady characters. Several
damage suits have resulted, but in no
instance has a plaintiff obtained judg-
ment. The last suit. which. like the
others. showed the mysterious hand
of the gang. was tried in Brown Coun-
ty.
The brotherhood now in existence
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-18

needful consumption OF food supplies;
wagons We're left along the trail, and
the next corners helped themselves to
such parts as they needed. or fancied
they needed I knew of more than
one such thrifty party who picked up
and mended broken wagon, only to
find, later on, that they had encum-
bered themselves with something that
they did not want. Queer-looking con-
triyances for mining, worn-out cloth
ing. and even valuable tools. were
plentifully scattered along the trail.
Everybody seemed to be stripping for
the conflict with the rude forces of ma
ture that was to come when We reach
ed the heart Of the continent. 1t was
our habit to to gather fuel from the
fioaIsam and jetsam of the plains; but
it often happened. In spite of this fore
thought, that the only fuel to be found
in an otherwise excellent camping
place would be q few handfuls of dry
grass, a cluster of dead weeds, or a
clump of the ill-smeIling grease-wood.
Century
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-18
THE LAST EQUALITY.

The rich man breathes the atmosphere
the same as you or 1;
He cannot see deeper blue than we do
in the sky;
He hears the piping of the birds-a music
sweet and clear
But maybe money-clinking dulls the mu-
sic to his ear:
And yet he has some pleasures that pos
sess tempting guise-
But he can't die any deader than the
poor man dies.
The rich man cannot eat more than
one meal at a time.
Nor more than his ten pennies will ex-
ceed the poor mans dime;
One suit of clothes is all that may at
once his form adorn,
And he's just as homely as the poor
man, when he's born;
His truth is just as honest, and his false
hoods are plain lies
And he can't die any deader than the
poor man dies.
There may be some philosophy in lifting
up a moan
Because the rich man rides the while the
poor man walks alone;
Because the rich man has his gold to buy
his goedly cheer
And yet there'll come a time when he
will have to leave it here.
Old Deaths spirit level that will brook
no compromise,
And no one dies any deader than the
next man dies.
Baltimore American
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-18
THE PROFESSORS DAUGHTER

81 MONG the sixty three professors
IN with whom L am acquainted, it
is natural to suppose a variety
of religious beliefs are to be found, and
1t will not, therefore. appear surpris-
ing IL he should be Buddhist, or, as his
Irish servant expressed it. "a blooming
boodist, begorra" of the bluest creed.
This was Professor Markham, profes-
sor Of Japanese literature. with whom
circumstances threw me into closest
intimacy.
He was not a man to thrust his con-
victions on any one, but being satur-
ated with the theories of Oriental
speculation it came to the surface in
fnnumerable expressions in every top
ic of conversation.
1 see, now, the professor expressing
his views, standing In his beautifully
yet inexpensively adorned parlor, his
daughter busy with some tasteful work
by the shaded light. and I comfortably
lOunging in n chair In the shadow.
The mind. the thought. and all the
senses are subject to the law of life
and death. With knowledge of self
and the laws of birth and death there
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-18
QUEER SroR'E5

Iron can be drawn into thinner wire
than any other metal except gold.
Thirty-two million tons of water roll
over the cliff at Niagara every hour.
A snow wall four feet thick is a per-
feet protection against a rifle bullet at
| fifty yards distance.
| A small grass seed which had ger
minated while in a patients eye, has
just been removed by a japanese ocu-
list.
The first steamer on the Rhine-a
Dutch one-was in 1922, fifteen years
service on the Hudson.
The greatest bay in the world is that
Of Bengal. Measured in straight line
from the two enclosing peninsulas it's
extent is about 100000 square miles.
Switzerland has, at Bex, salt mines
which have been worked for 34S years.
The galleries are twenty-five miles in
length, and the profit $4,000 a year.
The peat beds of the German empire
are estimated to cover 1872 900 acres.
To make use of this fuel in profitable
way is problem for science to solve.
A wine cask which holds ninety-seven
thousand gallons, and is the largest
ever built may be seen at Maltermora,
Cal. The steel hoops around it weigh
10000 pounds.
The Sacred Land, long given over to
barren desolation, may yet blossom as
the rose. Rich deposits of phosphates
have been found in the regions of the
Jordan and the Dead Sea.
One Of the English astronomers, ]. ].
Atkinson, who visited Sumatra to OBJ
serve the total solar eclipse last May,
made the acquaintance of an old Ma
lay, living on a little island near the
Sumatra coast, who owned a large
monkey which he had trained to work
for him in gathering cocoanuts. The
monkeys business was to climb the
gigantic cocoanut palms and throw
down the nuts, (which he did, says
Mr.. Atkinson, Gin the most artistic
manner, by screwing the nuts off with
his powerful arms while he hung by
his legs seventy to one hundred feet
from the ground"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-18
No Breach of Discipline.


The Colonel was entertaining some of
his friends with stories of army life,
and the talk turned to the infiexibility
of orders. That reminded the Colonel of
Tim Murphy's case.
Murphy had enlisted in the cavalry
service, although he had never been on
horse in his life. He was taken out
for drill with other raw recruits under
command Of a sergeant, and, as luck
would have it, secured one of the worst
buckers in the whole troop.
"Now, my men," said the sergeant in
addressing them, mo one Is allowed to
dismount without orders from a su-
perior officer. Remember that"
Tim was no sooner in the saddle than
he was hurled head over heels through
the air, and came down 50 hard that the
breath was almost knocked out Of him.
'Murphy" shouted the sergeant,
when he discovered the man spread out
on the ground, you dismounted"
81 did"
'Did you have orders?"
81 did"
'From headquarters, 1 suppose?"
with a sneer.
mo, from hindquarters."
Take him to the guardhouse" order
ed the sergeant.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-18

60 HERE is said to be in certain
parts of Southern Indiana an
oath-bound mutual benefit So
ciety which has grown out of that ia
nous - and infamous - organization
which in days gone by struck terror
into the hearts of all who came under
its ban-the dreaded Whitecaps.
The society has it's secret meeting
pla>:es. its signs. grips. passwords. ETC.,
and is a direct descendant of the Or
ganization which for years killed men
and whipped women in Southern In
diana and Ohio. 1t is claimed that its
members elect men of their own stripe
to all the important offices, so great
is the society's strength: that when
trial is on in which any member is
interested. his fellows are always
placed on the jury; that it is society
formed for mutual protection in any
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-18
"Drink. sleep, and wake after year.
when or our friend here shall give the

"Drink. sleep, and wake after year
when or our friend here shall give the
word"
| resistance than an appealing glance al
me. Then her head fell back upon the
pillow and she lay rigid, motionless
with closed eyes, as one dead.
Her death was announced in tbs
usual form and the funeral took place
in the regular way.
A few months later Professor Mark
man gave up his position and went
away, 1 understood. to Japan. though
after this episode our intimacy was in
terrupted Jarbraw found another
lady love, one of the class to which he
belonged-one who. it seemed to ME
was better fitted to be the wife of an
artisan than Fusa would have been.
The months flowed on At last, one
night the professor raped at my win
dow.
"a year has passed. Shall we awak-
en- Fusa?"
What answer shall / give him?'
asked myself on rising.
In telling this story 1 was accus-
toned to pause here and look around
the absorbed listening circle with an
expression which 1 hoped would im-
ply my belief in some profound mys-
terry. Sometimes one of the audience
would say to my wife:
And SO you were in a hypnotic sleep
for a year,"
To which the lady would reply de-
lids in my direction:
ut appears so from the narrative"
and you did not know what trans
pired during all that time?"
80, l had full possession of my
senses, heard all that was said in
my presence"
The professor would give a warning
cough and turn the conversation.
One day, when we were alone, FuSa
said:
Il am tired Of that fairy tale. 1t
seems to amuse you-you always did
love jest and to carry it to an ex-
treme-but do not, and L am going to
put oil cuu VI IL IL yOu DlIhS II uP
again."
why, you do not mean to deny that
you vanished from human sight for a
year?"
"Fiddlesticks!"
THAT you died and were inclosed in
a tomb?"
"How do you escape the imputation
of conniving at a crime? Why did you
not inform against my father? What
l shall say Is this: L was a foolish
young girl. infatuated with a. man
whom it would have brought me un-
happiness to marry. l would not be
convinced by words. but agreed to test
his faithfulness by going away for
year. He did not stand the test l
should think you would be ashamed of
of you! And l shall ex-
pose you if you do not stop it."
We stopped it. But this only shows
that Fusa is quite unaware that she
did lie for year in a hypnotic Sleep
Waverly.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-18
What Wallack Thought.

Aristocratic applause, to say nothing
of the demonstration of royalty, would
not be likely to be so uproarious as to
drown the performers, nevertheless the
San Francisco Argonaut's account of
the approval manifested at play
given at Windsor Castle in the earlier
days of the reign of Queen Victoria
may seem to some persons trif1e ex-
aggerated.
There had been a series of perform
ances at Windsor under the manage
ment Of Charles Kean, and it is to be
presumed that the comedians felt the
absence Of the hearty approval shown
in the regular theater, for one even
ing, when the queen sent an equerry
to Mr.. Kean to know if the actors
would like anything, meaning refresh
ments, the actor replied:
Say to her majesty that we should
be grateful for a little applause when
the spectators are pleased
Back went the equerry and conveyed
the message. At the end of the act
there was a>slight suggestion of hand
clapping and exceedingly gentle foot
tapping. James Wallack, who knew
nothing of the message sent to the
queen, hearing the mild demonstration,
pricked up his ears and inquired:
What is that?"
THAT, my dear Wallack," Kean re-
piled, 'is applause"
"Bless me-" exclaimed Wallack. 81
thought it was somebodv Shel1inp
peas"