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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1903-05-14
"Nanila. Nav 10, 1903.

Manila, May 10, 1903.
".idjuiuni- Gruryal Washington:
Capt, John J. Pershing has Completed
a circuit of Lake Ianao via the cast
coast from Camp Wears. Had a sharp
fight at Taraca. Captured 10 forts many
prisoners. 50 lantacas and ho rifles. All
other da,tos friendly. Liberated PRISON
crs. destroyed hostile forts and lantaca.,,
Our loss. two killed and four wounded
Every hostile Lanao datto has now been
chasised. All Moros know our Trend
ship is valuable and is freely extended t"
all who deserve it, No property, save
hostile forts. has been mo'cSted. lroopS
returning to Wears Via the west coast
Moro labor eager for employment ON the
roads and shelter buildings; former
about finished. tho latter progressing
rapidly. Troops have behaved ,pcndidiy;
not only in contcnding with fana'lcaI
savage foe. but a dread disease. and he.
sides, had to construct many mules o'
road through tropical jungle, % more
hos,iltics are anticipated beyond occas-
ional sniping. -,
Secretary Root sent the following
cable to General Davis:
| congratulate you on the work doh'
in Mindanao Express to Captain fcr-
shing and officers and men under HIS
command the thanks OF War Department
for their able and effective accomplish
mcnt OF a difficult and important task.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1903-05-14

MPUDENCE, I call It," said
the fair young widow Mar
ston. when you know |
start for London to.mor.
Tow. Marry you, Sim Par
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1903-05-14
The
Frazer Millions.
BY G. B. BURGIN.

I11TNT11II15
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
Names on the Pension ROLL

The interesting discovery was made
at the pension office the other day that
last fall the pension roll reached the
highest point in the history of the
country, bearing the names of more
than 100000 pensioners in the
months of July and September. After
September it steadily fell off, and
Commissioner Ware said to the Engle
correspondent that the decline was
due to the suffering and deaths among
old and feeble veterans in the fall and
winter caused by the scarcity of fuel
resulting from the coal strike.
For ten years there has been a lot of
speculation as to whether Uncle Sam
would ever have million pensioners
on his war list Year after year the
figures grew larger, but there were al
ways plenty of authorities to declare
that the high water mark had been
reached and that steady decline was
due. Commissioner Ware called on
the chief clerk of his department the
other day to make up a statement of
the pensioners on the rolls for each
of the months of the present fiscal
year. On June 80, 1902, when the last
report was made, the pensioners num-
bered 999 ,446, the greatest number
ever recorded up to that time. The
chief clerks compilation showed more
than a million for the month of July,
the exact total being 1,001 ,494. In
September it was 1,000,732, but from
that point it began to fall, and on
March 1 of this year there were only
997, 414 pensioners on the roll. Com
missioner Ware said:
THE pension roll has vibrated
across the million line twice during
the last ten months. 81 believe that
the coal strike had an Important In
fuence on the pension roll, for it be-
gan to drop as soon as the results of
the strike began to be felt. This was
quite natural, because the pensioners
are not only feeble and of advanced
age, but poor as well, and the coal
famine fell very heavily upon them.
The last report shows the pension roll
several thousand below the million
mark. The probabilities are that the
number of pensioners will linger in
the neighborhood of 100000 for
year or so, after which the decline
will begin. When once it gets started
1t will go down very rapidly. 1 esti-
mate that the deaths among the pen
sioners this year will exceed 10000,
while the increase in the way of new
pensions will not be as much. 1t has
been 43 years since the civil war be-
gun and the average age of the old
soldier is more than 60 years.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30

was Franklin May, a Methodist min
fster, who resigned his charge at the
first call to arms and marched to the
front. There were three Mays in the
regiment, brothers-two chaplains and
the chaplain, for war blood seemed to
run in their veins. Three Mays did l
say? Four, for there was the cap
tain's wife, and no pluckier patriot
served the Union cause than the wom-
an who followed him to camp, first at
Arlington and Alexandria and then at
a point near Mount Vernon, which
was known as Camp Michigan. She
brought with her their two daughters,
Josephine, aged thirteen, and Ella,
perhaps five years younger.
"One spring day at Camp Michigan
it happened to be April 13, the first
anniversary of the fall of Sumter
the little girls were wild-fower gath
ering. Their hands were filled when
they came across a grave-a rough,
unmarked mound that had closed in
over some northern boy for whom taps
had sounded that first twelve-month
oh, let's put our flowers on this
grave cried Josephine He is a sol
der boy
"In a trice the two were down on
their knees heaping nosegays over that
bare hillock and clasping their hands
in delight at their happy continuance.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30

her country as well as humanity. She
was at Alexandria in the spring of '63
when Lee began a series of suspicious
movements, and no plan could be hit
upon to ascertain his intention. Mrs.
Mays woman's wit found a way. She
would assume her maiden name and
under it visit the wounded and dying
Confederates- AS she cared for them
she gained what she could of Lees
movements and plans. With the sane
ton and promised aid of friends at
Washington and Alexandria she then
went to the Mansion House hospital,
ignoring the Union men and Offering
sympathy to the prisoners.
''She gained not only definite knowl-
edge of Lees past movements, but a
clue of the future-of his proposed adj
vance on Fairfax, Alexandria and
Washington. She even secured figures
OF the supposed strength of his COM
mand and the proposed points of at
tack. These facts she repeated to
Secretary Stanton and accompanied
him to President Lincoln. The presi-
dent listened with interest. Soon after
he made tour with his cabinet of the
locations referred to, and found them
but lightly fortified. They were at
once reinforced. When, at the exact
day and points anticipated, Lee made
his attack, they were not surprised
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30

May 80 is Memorial Day. the day
when pious hands the country over
will place floral tributes upon the
graves of the dead of the civil war.
The following version of the origin of
the custom is told by veteran who
wore the blue.
1T was just forty years the 18th of
last April" said he. 1.-TWO little girls
children of Michigan army chap
lain-were the first to lay spring flow
ers on a soldiers grave dug in Vir-
ginian soil, and from that little act of
childish impulse grew up the custom
wf1lch is now nationally observed,
north and south.
Il was a member of the Second
Regiment, Michigan Infantry, Col. ].
B. Richardson commanding, which saw
most of the fighting of the army of the
Potomac until the war was well nigh
ended. The chaplain of the regiment
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
(kI 1PfltslE1dles

Yankees, and skipped out the day be-
fore you came"
Then Mr. Smith told the colonel
how on that day before Christmas of
1864, when Sherman's army entered
Savannah, he was chief clerk of the
Twentieth Army corps. In company
with other printers in the Federal
army, he went to the News office,
where they worked all night to get
out paper. They set up the front
page, Smith started the press, and the
next morning the citizens of Savan-
nah read an article in their own news
paper, written by Yankee soldiers, put
in type by Yankee soldiers and printed
by Yankee soldiers, under a big scare
head: Savannah Captured by the Yam
keesi" The paper was printed on
wall paper, the only paper to be had
New Yor-A Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30

hand, has advanced the claim OF a
celebration held at Watertown, N z,
May u, 1866. Certain it is that Gen.
Logan often referred to his first decor
alton Day order as the sproudest act of
his ife,' and the year it was issued
the first great observance was held at
Arlington cemetery with Gen. Arthur
as the orator of the day. 1t is equally
certain that further to the south, a
few years before, those two little Mich
igan girls had begun the decoration of
graves in a small way that as certain
ly developed into the national memoir
ial. Yet so far as I know no recogni-
ton has been paid to its girlish orig
inators.
their two daughters lie buried in
Mountain Home, Kalamazoo, Mich
With the exception of one year, the
chaplain's family remained with him
throughout the war. Mrs. May was
called IAN angel of mercy from God
for her work at Alexandria, 1 recall
circumstances when she literally stole
dying men and smugg1ed them into the
city hospitals that she might minister
to their wants. She had of course the
connivance of the surgeons-it was
either that or leave them to die of
neglect and lack of nursing, for in
those first months of the war every
thing was red tape.
Later on she had chance to serve
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30

They must have had in mind the little
acts of remembrance they had seen at
the gravesides in the grass-grown
cemetery at home.
'On their way home the little ones
planned to go next day, gather arm
fuls of flowers and put them on all
the graves. When they were about to
set out on the morrow, Josephine told
Mrs May of their project, and the
sweet thoughtfulness of this child
fancy appealed to the older woman as
it only could have appealed to moth
err who knew a hospital camp at first
hand and had folded the hands of more
than one young fellow in his last sleep.
With her companion, Mrs. Evans,
young Red Cross nurse, Mrs. May
joined the children in gathering flow
ers, and together they placed the BIOS
SONS on thirteen graves-all that they
forCd, Union and Confederate alike.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30

among the thousands that later were
to rest at Arlington and along the
shores of the Potomac.
THE next year they did the same
thing, and the next, each time in May,
and now for the soldiers who fell at
Fredericksburg and other battles in
the Old Dominion. What they did
was noticed and soon others began to
do the same. There was opportunity
for all, for as the months went by
graves were multiplying faster than
ever before in history, and before the
close of the war the custom had
spread quite widely.
I'm 1868 Gen. John A Logan issued
that famous order of his as command
er-in-chief of the G. A. r. which set
apart May 80 as Memorial Day-a date
chosen late in the spring in order to
give the flowers chance to outfiank
late the spring. Since then many of
the states have made the day legal
holiday.
There has been some controversy
here and there as to what source to
attribute the. honor of suggesting a
decoration day. Gen. Chapman attrib-
uted it to Cincinnati soldier whose
letter concerning such a custom in
Germany he laid before Gen. Logan.
Gen. John B. Murray, on the other
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
Growing Old.


A little more gray in the 1essening hair
Each day as the years go by;
"A little more STOPPING in the form,
A little more dim in the eye
A little more fa1tering of the step
As we tread life's pathway Ger,
And a little nearer every day
To the ones who have gone before
A little more hating of the gait,
And dullness of the ear:
A growing WEAKNESS of the frame
With each swift passing year
A fading of hopes. and ambitions, too,
A faltering in life's quest.
And little nearer every day
To a sweet and peaceful rest,
A little more loneliness in life
AS the dear ones pass away;
A bigger claim on the heavenly land,
With every passing day.
A little further from toll and care,
A little less way to roam;
drawing near to peaceful voyage
And a happy welcome home.
William Todd Helmuth.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
When Lee and Grant Met.

1T was nearly thirty-eight years
ago." said ST. Louis paper recently.
that Gen. Robert E. Lee received
from Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, his gen.
'erous conqueror. reply to his note
offering to surrender, and rode rapidly
into the village of Appomattox Court
house to see the representative of the
Federal forces" w. c. B. Gillespie of
Macon. who appears to be stickler
for the truth of history, has detected
one error in this statement and writes
to the Macon Republican to correct
It. Gen. Lee, he declares, did not ride
rapidly. He was in no great hurry
to surrender 1T SO happened" says
Mr.. Gillespie, that / was riding along
the road on which Gen Lee was COM
ing from his camp, in plain view from
iAppomattox, riding on his fine iron
gray steed, at what l supposed was
the regular walking gait of the horse,
sitting erect in his saddle, his white
hair somewhat long, and having that
fine commanding appearance for which
he was noted He was coming to fill
an appointment with Gen. Grant, ac-
companied by Col. Marshall, his chief
of stan, and an orderly in the res.
But he was not riding rapidly, he -as
not running a race with time, but was
pace, his face rather sorrowful look
ing. as. was natural under the circum-
stances, but not downcast.. l stopped
while he passed and gave him the
military salute, which he recognized
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
For Memorial Dav.

The usual orders relating to the OBJ
servance of Memorial day have been
issued from the headquarters of the
Grand Army of the Republic, indie
pendence Hall, Philadelphia. and dated
April 18TH 1t is commanded that post
commanders should in their respective
communities arrange for posts to at
tend divine service on the Sunday pre-
ceding Memorial day, and as far as
possible encourage the delivery of ap-
propriate addresses or sermons in all
churches They are directed further
to arrange for the participation in the
ceremonies of Memorial Gay by the
children of the public schools. and, as
far as possible, under the direction of
teachers or school officials; and in
wife and encourage the participation
of all patriotic people and patriotic
organizations, and especially those
kindred to the order.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
The Field of chiekamauqa.

Under the authority of Congress the
federal government his purchased
1000 acres of land covering the battle
field of Chickamauga and has restored
it as nearly as possible to the condi-
ton in which it was at the opening
of the fight on Sept 10 and 20, 1863,
between the union forces under Gen.
Rosecrans and the confederates under
Gen. Bragg. The government has also
purchased a strip of land running the
entire length of Missionary Ridge, in
Guiding the site of the intrenchments
which were captured by assault by
the Union troops on the 25th of No
vember following. Eighty miles of
roads have been constructed from
Chattanooga through these parks, and
other battlefields in the neighborhood
of the city, and the landscape has
been beautified as much as could be
done without effacing landmarks that
existed before the battles and altering
the topography. The movements of
both armies have been traced with
great skill and fidelity throughout the
entire series of engagements, and the
locations of important struggles and
other episodes have been marked by
monuments and iron tablets contain
More than $1,750,OOO has thus been
expended for the purpose of preserv-
ing the scene of one of the most des.
perate and heroic conflicts in human
history and perpetuating the evidence
of bravery and devotion in both ar
mics.
In a similar manner the governm ent
is now laying out the battlefields OF
Shiloh and Vicksburg, and interesting
dedicatory ceremonies were held at
the former a short time ago.
A Touching Wartime Incident.
One evening, toward the close O.;
the civil war. while Union soldiers
lay in camp on a hillside, near the
Staunton river, in Virginia, the cry
of Halt, Who goes there?" from .
sentry started every lounger to his
feet A little girl about 10 years OF
age, holding white kitten, came for
ward into the light of the fires, con.
Quoted by two soldiers who looked as
proud as if they were escorting 81
queen.
The whole regiment gathered, in.
Guiding the colonel himself, to look al
the child and hear her tell her story
She lived near by with her father
who was sick and poor, and they were
nOrtherners, she said, and Union
folks" Her mother was dead, and her
brother had been killed while fighting
in the federal army. She wanted to
give something" and when Union sol
diers came she thought she would
bring her pet kitten and present it to
the colonel.
The colonel took the little girl in
n iG ~ ly;<
ten, too, and he was not bit !
ashamed of his weakness. The white
kitten was adopted by the regiment.
but WAS considered the property and
special pet of the colonel, and when
the war was over he took it home |
with him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
FederaIs Printed Southern Sheet

James o. Smith of New York, while
on visit to WilIiamsport, Pa. last
week, toad of his recent visit to Col.
j. H EsteL owner of the Savannah
News after talking while to the
colonel. Mr.. Smith said:
Colonel. do you know 1 worked on
your paper once?"
Il think you are mistaken. Mr..
Smith Our employees have always
been Southern men,"
No. I'm not mistaken said Smith.
Il came here with Sherman's bum
mers' in 1864"
The deuce You didia
Yes You were not at the Office.
eolonel.' observed Mr.. Smith, blandly.
No / did not wan. to see the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
An urdeserved Death Sentence.

Before the civil war Allmon and
George Vaughan were residents OF
Canton, Mo. AllmOn entered the
Union army His brother espoused
the cause of the Confederacy, and ia
due time he became a member of the
ssaff OF Gen. Mark E Green, an old
friend and neighbor- George Vaughan,
after the battle of Shiloh, undertook
a secret visit to his home at Canton.
He wished to see his own family and
to carry messages to the family and
wife of Gen Green. He passed un-
disputed through the Union lines.
spent some days in Canton, and was
returning to his command when he
was captured and jailed at Palmyra,
Mo-. but was soon transferred to ST.
Louis. There he was tried by a court
martial, and. though he denied that
he entered the Union lines for other
purposes, he was shot as a spy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30

SAILOR DEAD REMEMBERED.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-09-25

ford to be burned out. It is bad
enough when you have taken every
means Of safety but it is doubly 30
when you know you could have
been safe if you had only tried.
Furthermore, it is not your safety
alone that you are accountable for
but that of your neighbor as well.
The fire that destroys your prop
erty (which you have been cautious
enough to insure) may destroy his
home, which he has been unable 10
insure for various reasons. Right
there you are in part responsible
for his loss. Help to get city water
works installed and you will both
be cafe. We maintain, and always
will. that no citizen here can afford
to run the rick OF fire when he can
he protected by helping put in
water system for the welfare and.
safety of the town.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-09-25
FERDINAND NOTES.

Girls to do homework are at pre-
MUM just now.
Chas. Lewis, OF Spokane, is here on .
visit with his brother and family.
M. Kasper is done heading for the
season, having averaged about 80 acres
a day.
Mrs. Davis, of Cottonwood, accompa-
MED by Mrs. b. Geriing, drove over
Saturday to see the country.
Joe Uhlenkott, of Cottonwood, pulled
his big threshing outfit onto the Glenn
Fret place to work last Tuesday.
G. A. Smith was excused from serving
on the jury on account of sickness. He
is on the road to recovery again at this
writing.
F. M. Quigley took his daughter. Miss
Bessie, to Lewiston Monday morning
and brought back load of dry goods
for the store.
Mat Lowen found the harness out in
his field last week, which so mysterious
ly disappeared last spring. Somebody
made mistake about them.
B. F. Trueblood, of Missouri, father Of
W. j. of this place, arrived last Thurs
day. Quite surprise to his relatives
as he was not expected this fall.
Frank Pindall, OF Dublin. was over
looking after porkers. He says there
are more hogs here than anywhere on
the prairie and if we had telephone con-
nection we could get good prices for
them.
ARRIVED too late for publication last week.
H. j. Clarke, of vineland, was up on
business last Monday.
Lawyer Cassidy, OF Grangeville. passed
through here last Tuesday.
w. L. Thompson will not farm the big
tract Of Indian land another season.
Miss Bessie Quigley will attend the
Normal at Lewiston the coming term.
VIM. 7. Reynolds brought in the
shingles for the new school house We'd
nesday.
Math Lauer, of Greencreek, was up
last week visiting with his brother and
family.
VIM. Settlers and John Bieker win 70
to California on visit as soon a. their
crops are cared for.
VIM. Kincaid and G.. A. Smith went
to Grangevills Tuesday to serve as jurors
at this term Of court.
Robert Cowan was over Sunday from
the Rocky Butte district talking busi-
ness with our directors.
o. P. Fry, who had his leg broken by
a kick from horse some weeks ago, is
able to be around on crutches.
W. F. Eastman came in with q load
Of freight for the store on Monday and
o. Appel went after load Tuesday
morning.
Mrs. Jennie Hanson and son, Ole G.,
drove to Graneeville last Saturday to Sc
cure naturalization papers for the for
mer. The lady is now an American cit
izen.
PopuLIsT.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-09-25
STATE NEWS

A sash and door factory will
soon DO operating at Troy.
Two cub lions were born at Hal
ley recently while the Campbell
Bros. circus wac showing there.
Maion Leitch, harvest hand,
was robbed Of 5000 in Lewiston
Monday by fellow who got him
drunk.
The new depot IL now being
used at Sites and as soon as the
turntable is completed the terminal
will be moved from Stuart TO
Sites.
A boy captured a young eagle
near Culdesac recently that meas
ured7 feet from tip to tip of its
wings. The bird will be exhibited
at the Lewiston fair.
A new siding is being put in six
miles below Troy to be used as a
passing point for N. P. trains when
the new schedule goes into effect
after the division is changed to
Moscow.
Over 900 cars will be used at
Troy this year to ship out the lum.
Der, fruit, grain, etc., besides the
shipping of wood which is said to
have averaged Is cars a day since
the first of the year.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-09-25
IN BANKRUPTCY.

In the District Court Of the United States for tn,
District Of Idaho, Northern Division.
Bankrupt's Petition for Discharge.
In the matter Of James W. Willis. Bankrupt Ii
bankruptcy.
To the Honorable James H. Beatty. Judge Of III,
District Court of the United States for the District
Idaho.
James W. Willis. of Ferdinand in the County OF Id:
10 and State Of Idaho. In said district respectfully rel.
'esenis that the nth day of October Iooa, he wa
uy adudged bankrupt under the acts of Congress re
'sng to bankruptcy that he has duly surrendered al
his properly and rights Of property and has fully com
oiled with all the requirements Of said and Of tn
riders Of the court touching his bankruptcy.
Wherefore he prays that he may be decreed by tn.
court to have tui discharge from all debts ppovab
against his estate under said bankrup, acts, excep
such debts excepted by law from such discharsc
Dated this sth day of December, Iso7.
JAMES W. WILLIS. Bankrupt.
FogR & Nugent. Attorneys for Bankrupt,
Endorsed. Filed. Jan. n. Ioo5)