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The St. Louis Republic., 1903-01-01
Army Orders.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

Washington. Dec. S1.-Army orders were
issued to-day IS follows:
The following officers are detailed for service
and to fill vacancies in the Qua rterniaster's De-
partment: Captain Edward Jones' Jr.. Twenty
seventh Infantry: Captain George McManus Ar
tillery Corps.
Leave 20 include January 81 Is granted Com
tract SURGEON walter Beatty account Of
sickness
First Lieutenant Charles Ldwson. Artillery
Ccrps. is ordered to the Ga.isd States Mitasy
The leave granted Second Lieutenant walter
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-01-01

Holbrook- -Blackwelder Real Estate Trust Com
pany sold for the Excelsior Realty Company
property known as Nos. 2022-24.26 Olive street.
having Il front of 66 feet on Olive street; run
ming back the alley covered by good two
story building under ten years lease to the
Office Mems Club, s., go per year having been
specially remodeed and arranged for them about
two years ago. The buyer was Mrs. Elizabeth
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-01-01

days
Colonel James buchanan. Porto Rico P.ov-
sional Regiment of Infantry. is relieved from
further treatment at the general hospital Wash
inCton Barracks.
The extension Of leave granted Captain Willis
Uine, Fifteenth Infantry. is further extended
fen
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-01-01
CANADIAN WRECK RECALLS
MISTAKE OF OPERATOR McCABE

Incident of Train Dispacns That Illustrates Some OF the h'
sbiities Upon the Man Who Manipulates the
Key in Lonely Ii tile Telegraph ofhre
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-01-01

Dwyer, who purchased for an investment. g
was represented In the Transaction by the M.
camille Trust Company.
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INDIAN C0NFESSES TO KILLING.
Claims He Accidentally Shot Com.
rade. Then Hid the BOdy.

Anadarko Ok. Dec. 31-Grimes Aikeens
an Indian schoolboy and football playef,
well known in the Southwest, confessed
before the Coroner's jury to-day that ho
had killed Paul Lorenz. a comra4e. whose
body was found in gulch near here yes
terday.
Ajkeen said that. in company with I.or@
enz and William Ross. a third Wichita In
Ko and drank It on the way home. While
firing his revolver. he said. he accidentally
shot and killed Lorenz and dragged tho
rope attached to his saddle horn. He viii
be held
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17

kilometres. Postal communications
have been both improved and extend
ed, and during the past fiscal year
there was a transmission of 166, 100000
letters. newspapers and packages.
Both the International and foreign
money order business have notably in
creased. The telegraph receipts have
increased by 20 per cent.
The total federal income for the past
fiscal year amounted to $74,OO0O00.
The efforts made by the government
toward bringing about a better inter-
national understanding as to silver
have met with hearty and cordial re-
Spouse in the United States and Eu-
rope. Tho national monetary commits
sion, appointed by the Department Of
Finance, to study the varied questions
relating to the fuctuation of silver will
soon render a report on the result of
it's labors.
The President speaks at length of the
measures taken by the government to
prevent the general construction of
railways in this country. which, in his
opinion, would constitute a public
danger and menace to the future pros
perity of the republic.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17
Hunting chamois In n Cloud.
CIV. A. Baillie- Grohman in September
OutingO

The ascent up the excessively steep
slope, with the crushed snow
breaking under ones steps, was
hard work, and the fresh
signs of game as / reached higher
elevations and a whistle or two out Of
the dense fog, emitted by chamois at no
great distance made it all the more
tantalizing that ones range of vision
was so extremely limited. The top of
the ridge, some 5000 feet over the val
ley, consisted of black, rocky needle
like pinnacle, too steep for snow to lie
and on scrambling hand over hand to
the top, / found to my surprise that it
just topped the sea of white mist.
We soon had glissaded a thousand
feet down to about the place where l
had heard the chamois whistle on my
way up. We were talking quite loudly
when suddenly, without the slightest
warning, | found myself in the middle
of a band of chamois some thirty or
forty in number. AS had been sliding
down at a great pace l actually passed
a beast or two within reach of my
Bergstocke and one kid, in its frantic
haste to join it's mother, nearly ran me
down. Throwing myself backward into
the snow, and wrenching off the COW
ering of bolt and muzzle, the channels
greater than ours, actually gave me
time to get in a quick shot at what
looked like a buck before they van
ished in the dense mist.
You have him right enough" ex-
claimed the keeper: but l was not so
very certain about it, for it was a case
of pulling the trigger before the rife
was we'll up to my shoulder. When we
reached the spot where the animal had
been overtaken by my soft-nosed
Mannlicher bullet, a few spurts of
blood put a roster hue on the outlook.
AS the snow was scored up by countless
tracks and the trail OF blood soon stop
ped, we separated In order to more
quickly find the wounded beast. / had
not gone far before / found my quarry
lit was a barren doe. unfortunately
lying dead with my bullet through her
shoulders.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17

ing 100 pounds found inside a whale
killed near the Windward Islands forty
years ago sold for 81, 500 on the spot.
and for much more when 1t reached
market. The Dutch East India Com
pany paid the King of Tidore a fortune
for a lump of ambergris weighing 1872
pounds. Forty and fifty years ago,
when ambergris was worth SIS an ounce,
IL was as much a center of thieving.
intrigues and plans as diamonds. In
hundreds of cases sailors in the Carib-
bean sea and in Bahama waters be-
came involved in serious trouble
through attempts to steal Jumps of am
bergris
In the old time 1t was made the sub
ject of sea fights. and now that 1t IS
worth six times as much as 1t was for
ty years ago men plot to steal 1t as
they would plan to rob a bank. Adj
venturers watch for vessels carrying
100 or 200 or 500 pounds of ambergris as
train robbers watch trains carrying
gold East and West. Little wonder,
is it then. that the Puget sound coun-
try is as much disturbed over the
stealing of 100 pounds of ambergris as
1t would be over the stealing of car
go of gold from the Klondike. Amber
girls in this day is worth more than its
weight in gold.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17
CROPS AND TIMBER
DAMAGED BY STORM.
Further Reports from the Gale That
Swept Florida.

Further Reports from the Gale That
swept Florida.
Jacksonville Fla, Sept. 16.-Reports
have been received from a few towns
in the storm section not previously
heard from. They show little damage,
except to forests and crops.
At Chipley two small cottages were
blown down and two stores unroofed,
their stocks being greatly damaged by
the rain. Sugar cane is blown down
and crops generally greatly injured.
At Carrabelle the tide rose eight feet,
but little damage was done. A few
fishing boats were blown ashore.
Reports from Fort Meade state that
10 per cent. of the oranges are on the
ground. The turpentine men have suf-
fered heavily, nearly all the boxed
trees being blown down. The sugar
cane crop is almost a total loss. Cattle
were killed by the score by falling
trees. Trains run only as far as Zolfo,
as there are three or four washouts
between that point and Punta Gorda.
Though great damage was infictBd
in sections on both sides of Manatee,
the damage is reported as slight there.
Not more than per cent. of the orange
crop is injured in that section.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17

j. II. Estes. GnineaIIIe.

Gainesville, Ga, Sept. 16.-Judge ].
B. Estes died at his home here this
morning, aged IS, after an illness of
several days. He was prominent
lawyer, and for eight years was judge
of the Northeastern Circuit. He was
colonel of the Forty-fourth Georgia
Regiment during the war, and MEM
Der of the General Assembly in 18SO7Sl.
He was a nominee for Congress from
the Ninth district in 1875, against Ben
Hill. He was a native of Anderson
district. South Carolina. and moved 10
Gainesville in 1871 He is survived
by two sons. Claud Estes of Macon
and Hubert Estes Of Gainesville. The
funeral win be held tomorrow at IL
"a
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17
MARYLAND DEMOCRATS
Met in Convention and Nominated
Their Ticket.

Met in Convention and Nominated
Their Ticket.
Baltimore, Sept. 16.-The Democrats
of Maryland held their state conven-
ton in this city tonight, and nominat-
ed the following ticket:
For Governor, Edwin WarfieId of
Howard county; for state controller,
DR.. Gordon Atkinson of Somerset
county; for Attorney General William
Shepard Bryan of Baltimore City.
A platform was adopted of which the
Following is the substances:
The present Democratic admins
tratlon of Gov. John Walter Smith is
lndorsed; pledges are made in behalf
OF a primary election law for the state
to conform to the present law in Bal
tlmore city; the necessity for protect
ing the oyster fisheries of Chesapeake
Bay is recognized, and the building
OF good roads throughout the state
is approved
The race issue plank, which is re-
garded as the most important in the
platform, declares for white suprem-
acy in state, city and county govern
ment The clause rela ting to the race
question is as follows:
we believe that the political des-
TIMES of Maryland should be shaped
and controlled by the white people of
the state, and while we disclaim any
purpose to do any injustice whatever
to our colored population, we declare
without reserve our resolute purpose
to preserve in every conservative and
constitutional way the political ascend
anCy OF our race"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17

the people at large, as we'll as those in
Tallapoosa county, have been out
spoken in their qualification that the
evil has been broken up and have
heartily commended the course of the
authorities in dealing with 1t. This
spirit, as you will see by the accom-
panyng petitions, actuates the people
of that county, who, in numerous meet
ings, have asked the pardon of the
prisoners. Among the signers of pc
titions for pardon are many negroes,
who feel safe from any repetition of
like offenses and join with their white
neighbors in these petitions for elem
ency, believing, in this instance, that
it will rebound to the public good, and
smooth the relations between the
races.
THE great body OF the people of Tai
lapoosa county have in effect become
sponsors for the good behavior of the
prisoners and the loyal observance of
the law in this respect by all otheIs in
the future. public opinion, stronger
even than the power of the law, has
been aroused to stand up in the future
for justice and fair play to the weak.
Granting the prayer of these petition
ers would recognize and strengthen
these influences which, at last, are the
only enduring foundations of a reign of
law. 1 cannot doubt that good would
come from granting the prayer of the
petitioners.
Apart from these considerations.
there are others which are deserving
of weight When the innocent must
inevitably often suffer with the guilty,
such considerations cannot be allow
ed to stay the hand of justice. until
the ends of legal punishment have
been completely attained. When, how
ever, the punishment of the guilty
has wrought all the ends the law de-
signs for the good of society and in
dividuals, l venture to suggest that
the authority which has the power
to chasten the harshness of the law,
may then we'll consider the weight of
misfortune and distress which Will
befall the innocent and helpless by fur
Their punishment of the offender.
George D. Cosby has a wife and
six children, the oldest a girl of Il,
and the youngest a baby born since
his Imprisonment. His wife is sick
and quite feeble. Barancas Cosby has
a wife and two children and his wife
is now about to be confined. Both the
prisoners are men of small means and
left their families no support. The
families of the two Cosbys have been
moved to the home of the father-in-
law, an infirm Confederate soldier, now
20 years of age. They are dependent
upon him for support, when he is bare
ly able to care for his own family
THE condition of the families of
these prisoners appeals keenly to the
people of their county, and has en-
listed in their behalf the efforts of
many good people in all parts of the
state, who, while expressing nothing
but condemnation for the offense, have
in letters and personal interviews
strongly expressed their belief that il
would have a wholesome moral effect,
under all the circumstances, now to
pardon the prisoners. After much re-
Election and consideration of the mat
ter l unhesitatingly recommend an
immediate and unconditional pardon"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17
WAITED
And Finally Got 1t.

Prior to the time Grape Nuts food
came upon the market | had suffered
terribly from chornic catarrh of the
stomach and had not taken one
ounce of solid food but forced to
live on liquids for upwards of IS
months" says a Philadelphia man;
Naturally was greatly reduced
physically, and life was burden to me.
Z when Grape Nuts was first put
upon the market it seemed from its
description that it was just what
required and had been waiting for
so | began its use and began to inn
prove Immediately. l kept up the use
OF Grape Nuts, growing stronger and
better until my stomach finally re-
covered entirely and to-day / can di-
gest any kind of food without trouble.
An of the catarrh is gone. l also feel
the effects of the food very strongly
I'm renewed nerve and brain force.
Name given by Postum Co. Battle
Creek. Mich.
A large percentage OF all disease
is caused By improper food ana wheh
his wrong condition OF affairs is cor
rected and proper food, Grape Nuts,
h used In place Of improper food
complete restoration 20 health. brain.
nerve and physical power follows.
This Is simple truth founded upon
solid scientific facts and trial proves
e. -
Look IN each package for a copy OF
the famous little book, The ROAD ."
Weliyllle.'
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17
WOMEN AND A CHILD
BRUTALITY MURDERED.

Superior, Neb.. Sept. 16.-Mrs. H. H.
Paine, an aged woman, her daughter,
Mrs. Williams. and a 13-year-old
daughter Of Mrs. Williams were muir
dered in their home on a farm near
Judson, Smith county. Kansas, last
night.
The three had been accustomed to
sleep together. Mrs. Williams was
found dead outside the house this
morning. The girl was dead in bed,
and the grandmother was unconscious
and died soon after the discovery of
crime.
The murderer had beaten in the
skulls of all the victims, using a culti-
1ator bar. A young farm hand named
Madison is suspected of the murders.
He was enamored of Mrs. Williams,
who was seeking a divorce from her
husband and who had refused to mar
ry Madison.
Madison has disappeared.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17
EXCESS OF IMPORTS
over Exports in Great Britain Is
Given Explanation.

over Exports in Great BRITAIN rs
Given Explanation.
London. Sept. 16.-On the heels of
Premier Balfour's academic exposition
of his personal views of the fiscal prob
lem contained in the pamphlet on in
sular free trade" advance sheets OF
which were issued last night, came the
long promised and much demanded
government statistics dealing with that
subject. They were issued to-day by
the Board of Trade in the shape of a
blue book, showing the various aspects
of British and foreign trade and the
industrial conditions.
A valuable explanation is given of
the much quoted excess of imports
over exports, which has so often been
held to be a sign of British trade de-
cline. The blue book says that while
the excess yearly averages about $780,
900, 900, the income receivable from for
eign investments, calculated at $312,-
500, 900, added to the earnings of the
British merchant feet engaged in for
eign trade calculated at $450,000,0 900,
is probably more than sufficient to
account for the average excess of i'm
ports"
Much attention is devoted to the tin
plate industry and the effect of the
Dingley and Mckinley tariffs. The fig
ures show that the total exports of
tin from the United Kingdom have de-
clined only a little over $5,000,000 since
1897, with a marked increase in the
quantity produced and in the value of
a number of mills since 1898.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17
MEXICAN PRESIDENT
PRESENTS HIS MESSAGE

Mexico City, Sept. 16.-President Diaz
read his semi message to Con-
gress at the opening session of that
body this evening. After referring to
Mexico's friendly relations with all
foreign powers, he called attention to
the compulsory arbitration treaty,
which has been signed by twelve
Latin American nations, THE latest
signatures being Salvador and Uru-
quay.
In regard to the present epidemic
of yellow fever at Tampico, the Presi-
dent says the government of the state
of Tam'aulipas and the local authori-
ties have sufficiently combatted the dis
ease and have established adequate
sanitary services.
The President gives much space to
education and notes the growth of the
public schools in the federal district
and territories, and says that profess
sors have been sent to the United
States to study manual labor as prac-
ticed there.
The railways show a growth of 42S
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17
LARGEST AUTO IN THE WORLD.
From the Washington Star.

from the washington star.
The largest automobile ever built is
a harvester and auto" combined and
is used in Southern California. 1t is
equal to sixty horses and goes at the
rate of three and a half miles an hour,
moving swath thirty-six feet wide.
putting up the grain IN finished shape,
threshing, etc.
The machine is sixty feet long and
thirty feet wide. The motive power is
furnished by oil. 1t is such an axpen-
sive harvest hand that one farmer
cannot, of course, own it alone, but it
is the property of a company, and goes
from one farm to another. Eight men
are required to run it. AS the machine
starts off the grain begins falling in
sacks on the opposite side from where
it Is cut and the straw drops into cart
behind.
Three machines sent to Russia for
work on the steppes were delayed in
China and captured by the Boxers.
There they remained for a couple of
years, but they are now in Russia and
considered an American wonder.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17
MEN WHO HELD Poems
ARE GRANTED PARDONS
PRESIDENT Listens to Appeals Made for the Two
Cos6ys, Who We're Sent Up From Alabama.

Washington, Sept. 16.-The President
mas granted full and unconditional par
dons to George D. and Barancas f.
Cosby, convicted at Montgomery, Ala.
of violation of the peonage law. These
men were indicted for holding Pike
Swanson in a condition of peonage.
pleaded guilty on June 80, 1903, and on
the same day We're sentenced to i'm
prisonment for year and a day in
the United States penitentiary at At
lanta, Ga.
They have been imprisoned ever since,
and to-day were released on Geographic
Instructions from the Department of
Justice.
During the month of June more than
eighty indictments against a number of
individuals, for violation of the peon-
age law, were returned by the grand
jury at Montgomery. and several con-
victions We're secured, the sentences
imposed ranging from the minimum, one
year, to the maximum, five years.
The President granted the pardons
al tAAC dOONG cases upon the earnest
recommendation of Judge Jones. who
sentenced the prisoners. In his letter to
the President, Judge Jones says:
The favorable recommendation now
made proceeds on no idea that the sem
fences were unjust; but solely from
the conviction that the punishment al
ready undergone by the prisoners has
accomplished all the real ends of the
law in these cases.
The prisoners have undergone the
humiliation of Imprisonment in the
penitentiary, the sting of condemna-
ton by their neighbors and associates,
and the wide publicity of their offense.
They have been separated from their
families, and have worn stripes. There
is no ground for believing that they
Will ever again, under any circum-
stances whatever, engage in like prac-
tees. They attempted no defense,
but pleaded guilty at the earliest OPP
portunity They were contrite and
admitted that they justly deserved
punishment. The reform of offenders
themselves, so far as the law contem-
plates has been effected by the pun.
ishment.
The question of pardon may, there
fore, be properly considered, now
solely as regards it's effect upon the
administration of justice and the pub
lie welfare. The law has been
thoroughly vindicated, and the evil
against which it was directed, in
these communities. has been complete
ly crushed. Connivance with the
abuses of corrupt magistrates in that
locality, in the exercise of the power
to hire out offenders for payment of
fine and costs on conviction for small
and often sham offenses, in order to
reap profit for the hirer, has been
thoroughly exposed and broken up. 1t
has met the hearty reprobation of the
great mass of the people in all walks
Of life. The example has been all suf-
ficient to deter others from like Of
lenses in the future.
1.-THE press, the pulpit, the bar and
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17
A CHARGE OF ANTELOPE.
And II All Happened when the Last
Film Had Been Used.


From Scribner's Magazine.
1t was nearly sunset when we neared
our camp on FAN river. From the first
bench above the stream we saw a long
file of elk coming down to the water
on the further side, and when they had
scrambled down the steep cut bank the
foremost one waded out and started to
cross. Soon he was beyond his depth
and struck out boldly, swimming in a
long curve to the shore on our side.
The others followed and soon the river
had whole string of elk across it.
Before the last one was over we saw
more elk coming from further down
stream. / happened to look back of me,
and from the foothills came a small
bunch of antelope, mincing along in a
coquettish way. I'VE are surrounded, &"
said Leek. And there were two more
outfits of antelope coming, one on our
right and the other on our left. Il
forgot that we are right near a salt
lick here" said Leek. There is no
escape, but we will fight hard!'
The first lot of elk got wind of us,
and when they ran the other elk took
alarm, too. But some of the antelope
came right on, and we made two pic
while, and circled half around us.
While Lee6 struggled to open a stub
born plate-holder they formed in COM
pany front and charged straight for
us, till l thought they would really run
us down. On they came till they were
not fifty feet away, and then stopping
in line, cooked their heads and said, as
plainly as they could, please take our
pictures" Leek's plate-holder was
hopelessly stuck. and l had used my
last film. | felt as man feels when
he takes bevy Of girls to restaurant
for luncheon, and then discovers he has
no money. l had lost the big fish and
missed the big buck; but never do 1
expect to feel 50 foolish as l did while
those antelope faced our helpless cam
eras in pose we may never either of
us see again.
For ten seconds they stood, and then,
as the air grew warm with what we
said, they tossed their heads scornfully
and ran away. As long as live l
shall remember that cavalry charge of
the antplOup.