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The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
NATIONAL GUARDS DEPART,
The ReEulars Left to Finish the
Programme of Maneuyers at
Fort Riley. Has.

Fort Riley. Kas., Oct 2S.-All of the
national guards regiments broke camp
Tuesday morning and left for home.
In reality, they broke camp Monday
night, for their tents were struck and
all of the heavy baggage loaded on the
trains. 1t was found necessary to do
this in order to permit the prompt de-
parture of the trains in the morning.
The proceeding, however compelled the
men to sleep in the open. and there
was no great comfort in doing so. for
1t was as cold a night as has been ex-
perienced in this place during the
maneuvers.
The balance OF the programme for
heregulars has been rearranged There
was no military problem for Tuesday,
and Wednesday will see the last exer-
else of that character. when a convoy
will be sent out and attacked and de-
Tended by the opposing forces. Thurs
day night the troops will march out at
nightfall bivouac and establish out
posts in the morning The balance of
the week will be given over TO drills
and target practice.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
Sagatel Sagouni, President of the
Armenian Revolutionary So
ciety in London, Murdered.
while ENTERING RESIDENCE
He WAS fOULLY SHOT TO DEATH.
saGOunf's Life HID Been Threatened
On Account of His Participation
In the Exposure of the Misappro-
priatiOn of Funds Raised I'm
America For the Armenians

London, Oct. 2S.-Sagatel Sagounl,
airy society in London, was murdered
in the suburb of Nunhead late Mon
day evening. The crime has created
sensation, as 1t has every appearance
OF being of a political character and
has been preceded by the assassinations
OF other officials of branches of the
same society on the continent
M. Sagouni, who only returned to
London, Monday. after settling up the
AFFAIRS of an associate in Switzerland,
who was recently assassinated by stab
bling, was entering his residence when
a man rushed across the road and fired
four shots at Sagouni in quick success
sion, the last bullet entering the region
of the heart. The murderer, who APP
peared to be a foreigner, fed The
only clcws to the man in possession
OF the authorities are felt hat and a
silver-plated revolver, both made in
New York, which he dropped in his
fight.
The murdered man, who was a min
Ing engineer, became wealthy in the
Caucasus, and devoted his money to
the Armenian cause. His society was
entirely passive and opposed to vio-
lence, and it is thought this attitude
inspired the advanced section of the
Armenians with the desire for ven
geance. the latter claiming that Sa-
COUNTS society devoted funds to char
ity which would have been better ap-
piled to violent remedies for the Ar
menian grievances.
'Sagouni is said to have moved to
England from New York early in 1902
1t is stated that Sagouni's life had
been threatened on account of his par
ticipation in the exposure, by the edi-
tor of the Boston newspaper, Young
Armenia. after the misrepresentation of
funds by a faction of the Armenian
revolutionists. These men are alleged
to have collected $20, 900 in America in
1902, and to have put the money in
their own pockets, instead of pushing
the propaganda for the emancipation of
the Armenians, for which the money
was subscribed.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
REPORT OF ADMIRAL RAE.
Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engi-
neering of the Navy Reports.
Several Recommendations Made, In
Guiding improvements At the
Various Navy Yards.

Washington. Oct. 2s.--The annual re-
port of Rear-Admiral C.. W. Rae. chief
of the bureau of steam engineering for
the fiscal year ended June 30, last,
says:
The report of the liquid fuel board,
when published, will be of inestimable
benefit to the manufacturing, maritime
and naval world, and will show the
far-reaching benefit of careful, con-
scientious and extended experimental
investigation. Neither in extent nor
in character have these tests been
equalled. either at home or abroad,
and the bureau feels assured that when
the results of the experiments are
made known that the necessity and adj
visibility of conducting extended inves
tigation in other directions will be
made manifest"
The report earnestly requests the de-
tails of junior line officers as assistants
To the naval inspectors of material in
order that the training that they would
receive may fit them for the important
duties of inspectors in charge.
Reviewing the needs of the bureau
at the different yards, the following
recommendations are made for the
yards named:
Portsmouth, N. H., entire set of
buildings for the bureau Boston, pow
er plant; New York, several new build
ings; League Island, additional tools.
Norfolk, auxiliary machine shop; Mare
IL
buildings proposed for the new plant;
Puget Sound pattern shop power house
and administration building; Key
West, new foundry; Pensacola, com
plete outfit of shops The estimated
cost for tools and machinery plant at
Charleston is given at $3.50 900
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
AUTHORITATIVE DENIAL.
The .Japanese Steamship Nippon
Maru Will Not Call at Midway
Island En- Route.

San Francisco. Oct. 2S.-The reports
sent out from Honolulu, a few days
ago. to the effect that the Togo Kisen
steamship Nippon Maru would call at
Midway island on her way to Yokoha-
ma, owing to anxiety over the alleged
strained relations between Japan and
Russia, is denied by the general agent
of the line in this city, on the authori-
ty of Minister Takahira, at Washing
ton. When the report concerning the
Nippon Maru was received there,
Agent Avery consulted Japanese Con-
sui Uyeno and he in turn wired Minis
ter Takahira, who promptly denied it
on the strength of a cablegram from
the consul-general at Honolulu.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
TRAGEDY AT SEATTLE, WASH
Claud ii. Arbuckle Fatally Shoots
Gladys Grey and Then Ends
His Own Life.

Seattle, Wash. Oct. 2S.-Crazed with
the knowledge that she had deserted
him for another man. Claud H. Ar
buckle, formerly a floor-walker in a
local dry goods house. Monday night
fired two shots into Gladys Grey. for
merly variety actress at Nome, in
room at the Hotel Cecil, and then
blew out his brains. The woman will
die The first bullet lodged in the girls
lung. and the second shot. fired with
the muzzle of the gun pressed against
her back, set her clothing on fire. Ar
buckle then placed the muzzle of the
revolver in his mouth and blew off the
top of his head.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30

New Orleans, Oct 2s.-Attended with
considerable ceremony. including the
firing of cannon, the largest and in
point of personnel the most influential
levee convention yet held in the Mis-
sissippi valley, opened, Tuesday in
Tulane hall. President Chas Scott, of
the Interstate Mississippi River I'm
provement and Levee association
called the body to order The purpose
of the meeting is to appeal to the ma
tional government for sufficient aid tc
levee both banks of the river and to
maintain these levees at maximum
grade, retaining and giving protection
to the alluvial lands and improving
navigation. The attendance included
governors, senator's, members of con-
gress, high railroad officials and rep
resentatives of the commercial ex-
changes and levee boards from many
states of the valley. kilograms were
received from men in 25 or more states
expressing sympathy with the move
ment. President Stuyvesant Fish of
the Illinois Central, Vice President
Winchell of the Rock Island, officials
of the Texas & Southern Pacific, ex-
Secretary of the Treasury Charles s.
Fairchild, Gov, Longino of MISSISSIPPI
pi, Senator Berry, of Arkansas; Con-
gresham Davidson, of Wisconsin, and
others were present.
ExGov. Stanard, of Missouri, was
chosen temporary chairman. The open
ing session closed with the appoint
ment of a committee on permanent or
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
THE AIR FAILED TO WORK.
There Was. In Consequence. a CoIIi-
sion, With Fatal Results, On the
Denver & Rio Grande

Salida, Col, Oct. 2S.-By the air fail
ing to work on the second section of a
freight train on the Denver & Rio
Grande, on steep grade, the train ran
into the rear of the first section. Four
men were buried beneath the wreck
age. Three of them were killed out
right and one frightfully injured.
The dead:
Samuel Brown. engineer.
Henry Simons, brakeman.
John Mulcahey, brakeman.
Injured:
Henry F1zsimmons, arm and leg
broken and bruised about body.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
COLORADOANS PROTEST.
They Think They See Private Graft
In the Segregation of Certain
Public Land.

meeting of citizens of this (Chafee)
county. resolutions were adopted pro-
testing against the general land Office
at Washington setting aside public
lands adjacent to this city as a part of
the San Isabel forest reserve. The
land in question is rich mineral and
agricultural land. and the charge is
made that private interests are seeking
to have the land reserved for their own
gain.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
NOT OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE.
Regarded As the Result of bitter
Feeling Between Factions.

Boston. Oct. 2S-The murder of Sa-
gatel Sagouni. president of the Ar
menian revolutionary society, in Lon
don, is not regarded as being of great
political significance by Armenians in
this city. but rather as a result of
bitter feeling which exists between two
factions within the revolutionary par
ty itself. In support of this. it was cit
ed the recent attempt to assassinate an
Armenian editor, Peter Kuregian, in
this city, by members of the revolu
tionary party said to hold socialistic
views which Kuregian opposed. At the
trial. an officer of the party testified
that the members of the socialistic
wing had taken steps to remove "all
instructions" in spreading their views.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
The President. birthday.

Washington. Oct 2S.-President
Roosevelt. Tuesday, celebrated the for
ty-fifth anniversary of his birth. Many
beautiful and touching reminders of
the event came to him from every part
of the country. Hundreds of kilograms
and letters of eongratulation were re-
ceived at the White House during the
day
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30

Washington, Oct. 2S.-The supreme
court of the United States denied the
motion. made last Monday, to unite
the cases of Jackson w Giles, attack
ing the validity of the suffrage provi-
sions of the new Alabama constitution.
with the case of Dan Rogers. murder
case. and has advanced them on the
docket for January 4.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
SHORT-LlVED LIBERTY.
Two Federal Prisoners Who Es-
capped From the Wichita tkaso
Jail Speedily Recaptured.

Wichita, Kas., Oct. 2S.-Ralph and
Roy Martin, federal prisoners. convict
ed of cutting open a mail sack, es-
capped from the county Jail here early
Tuesday morning by digging through
the wall They were recaptured with
in few hours, one of them being too
sick to get away
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30

Clarksburg, w. Va. Oct. 2s-Two
students in Broadus college. the Bap-
fist UNCONVENTIONAL school in this city,
have smallpox. and the entire college
is under quarantine. One hundred and
fifty students are confined.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
The Age OF Elizabeth.

Elizabeth was holding that last tete-
a-tete with Mary Stuart.
AT any rate" said the Virgin Queen,
81 shall give my name to the age"
well, you ought to" retorted Mary,
you look every day of il"
Realizing the Jig was up. Mary re-
tired to make her will-N Y. Sun.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30

Minneapolis. Mimi, Oct. 2S.-Henry
F. Brown, a prominent capitalist and
politician. was arraigned on an indict-
ment charging that he offered 10 AL
derman Fred w. Powers bride of $500
TO accept the bid of the Bowers Rubber
Co for fire hose. Mr.. Brown pleaded
not guilty.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
Probably Fatally Shot.

st. Louis, Oct. 2S.-John Arntzen, a
steamboat engineer. was probably ia
tally shot, Monday afternoon by Thorn
as killeen, saloonkeeper al All Chest
nut street. on the sidewalk in front of
the latters saloon The men had been
warm friends
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
American Church at Berlin.

Berlin. Oct. est has been definitely
can church here on Thanksgiving day.
The building only lacks few finishing
touches before reaching completion.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
THE BARON WILL COME BACK
The German Foreign Office Denies
the Report That Won Sternberx
VIII Not Return.

Berlin, Oct 2s.-The foreign office
denies that there is any truth in the
report published in the United States
yesterday that Baron Won Sternberg.
the German ambassador at Washing
ton. will not return to his post. The
officials say the ambassador will return
to the United States at the end of No
yember
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
Photograph ChiaeI. Oak.

One of the peculiar freaks of recent
tornado at Waupaea Wis. was the driv-
Ing of a cabinet photograph into an oak
tree. w. Jorgensen sawed down the
tree and will keep the freak.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
Three Men Reported Ktuad

Niagara Falls. N. Y, Oct 2S-Three
men were reported killed and five in
iured in an accident at the Canadian
Niagara Power Co.'S plant at Niagara
Falls. Ont, Tuesday.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30

st. Petersburg, Oct 2s.-A dispatch
from Port Arthur says Viceroy Aliexeff
las gone to Talien-Wan to inspect thu
RIfS:an naval fo-css in the Pacific.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
Infection In Public.

At an industrial school in Liverpool.
where 200 children were bathed in the
same water. several cases of pneumonia
have been set up.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
Cotton Good. for the world

The world uses 100000 900 worth of
cotton goods in a year. OF this Great
Britain manufactures &c per cent.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
Playing a Mean Trick

Smith-Jones is the meanest man on
earth.
BrowD-What did he do?
Hes deaf and he's never told his bar
Der. "-Household Ledger.
The Forrest City times., 1903-10-30
attended With
MUCH Ceremony
Opening of tine National Levee Con-
vention at New Orleans With
Much Ceremony.
The PURPOSE OF The Meeting
AN APPEAL TO The GOVERNMENT.

Aid Will he Asked to Levee Both
Banks of the Mississippi and to
Maintain These Lcyees At IA Max
fmum Grade As n Means of Pro-
lection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-13


England some day." replied the king. And.
despite her nervousness. the good lady could
not but laugh at the quick answer.
Congressman Carter Glass. OF Virginia holds
to the belief that party politics can be played
with fairness even In the House OF Representa-
tives- He was discussing the point with Judge
Sims. Of Tennessee. who agreed with him par
tally, but declared that he intended 10 vote
with the Democrats at all times. And I tell
you why" he added. It's because Of my obser-
vations. remember that a few years ago
there came 70 this House n brilliant lawyer
from Georgia. Re had large knowledge OF par
liamentary practice and such exalted convic-
lions Of fair play I'm politics that he moved
more than once TO vote against his party. That
man from Georgia." concluded Judge sims IN
a confidential whisper, 'Isn't here now"
One Of the most extravasant households IN
England is that OF william waldorf Astor
whose son William Is now I'm this country
Aston. ST.. is entertaining large house parties
in Cliveden. IT would be hard TO excel the
Astor hospitality. A band OF ten musicians Is
stationed permanently I'm Cliveden- Every night
this band plays and the guests may dance or
not. as they choose few weeks ago the
Duchess OF Wellington the Astorsr chief
guest She said she dying to have some
amateur theatricals." She wrote out a list OF
costumes and the steward was sent 20 London
for them. stage was built In the ballroom
and scenes were painted hurriedly. This en-
tertainment for the duchess cost great deal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-13

Well-to-do Christmas buyers may COM
bine excellent taste and patronage of one
of the most admirable local interests by
selecting their holiday gifts from the paint
ines of Indiana artists. Adams. Steele. For
syth, Gruelle, Bundy, Stark and Conner,
besides many who are less directly con-
nected with painting in professional way.
produce pictures that are shown in the best
exhibits Of the country and that attract
most favorable attention from art critics.
1t should be a matter of as much Pride to
Indianians to have on their walls the work
OF native landscape artists as TO have in
their bookcases the books of Indiana
authors. especially when, as in this case,
the work is high class. In the past few
years there has been a commendable
patronage Of the artists on the part of
some of the more discriminating local pur
chasers and there is no reason why any
person who has a sense for the beautiful
should neglect this means of satisfying
that sense. At the various art stores of
the city the artists have annual exhibitions.
and at other times the prospective pur-
chaser of art treasures is welcome at the
artists studios.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-13

London papers and some of their readers
are discussing what to read in bed. They
seem to assume that one must read some
thing in bed. though that is not abso-
lutely necessary. Persons who work reason
ably hard and go to bed with a good d.
gestion and good conscience generally
find better way of spending the time in
bed than by reading.
Admitting that one must read something
in bed the question what to read is fair
one for discussion. On the principle that
recreation shoulc consist of something diff
ferent and remote from ones usual occupa-
ton it would seem that If one reads to rest
ones mind or compose ones nerves one
should read something quite out of the
line of ones daily work and thoughts.
Thus lawyer whose brain is occupied all
day long with legal problems should not
take a law book to bed with him, a doctor
should read something as far removed as
possible from the medical line, the humorist
should read something serious, the serious
man something funny, and so on. A news
paper is not a good thing to read in bed.
for several reasons. First, it should have
been read long before; second. it is incon-
venient to handle in lying posture; third,
it may take fire. and fourth, it is a re-
capitulation of current events and affairs
which the restless person is trying to get
out of his mind.
An entertaining novel is probably as good
as anything to rest ones mind and lead 1t
away from vexatious cares, provided it is
good enough to absorb the attention and
not too exciting. The world abounds with
good poetry and essays which would fill all
the requirements of the occasion. A dip
into the Bible would afford new sensation
to most persons and perhaps disclose some
familiar quotation or expression whose
origin never was known before.
But really, why read in bed at all? Why
and sleepy" and then turn in prepared to
sleep. and do it? A young man who was
troubled with insomnia went to q wise doc
tor for remedy. After hearing his case
the doctor said: sleep it off, young man;
sleep it off," The advice was good The
and suddenly. and one should be prepared
to welcome it on short notice After one
has turned over In bed ninety and nine
times, the hundredth time may bring a
genuine desire for sleep. which. if embraced
at the moment. may bring the needed rest,
but which, If neglected or discouraged. will
fly away and have to be wooed again a
long time. II one is reading, no matter
what. this sleepy feeling cannot be well
coined and embraced the moment it comes.
There must be some necessary preparation
and equipment for 1t, and by the time that
is accomplished 1t may have gone. Per-
haps the best thing to read in bed is moth
ing at all
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-13
THE ENTERPRISE OF A SOUTHERN
CITY.

In former years the country never looked
TO Southern cities for evidences of munich
pal or individual enterprise. but times have
changed and In recent years there have
been some notable instances of the kind.
One OF the latest Is furnished by Galveston,
Tex. The public has not forgotten the terri
BILE disaster that befell that city in Sep
TENDER, 1900 when, by a combination of
hurricane and tidal wave. a large part of
the city was submerged by from four or
five to ten feet OF water. causing the loss
OF about 5000 lives and from s2O.oO0,Ooo to
sSo,00o,ooo of property. The city was almost
obliterated. but it is recovering In a re-
markable manner.
dispatch in the Journal a few days ago
stated that New York firm had been
awarded the contract of raising the low
sections Of the city to level with the sea-
wall constructed since the disaster of 1900.
This seawall is the greatest engineering
work of its kind in the country. and was
considered necessary on account of the Pc
culiar location Of the city to protect 1t
against recurrence of the disaster of 1900.
II is built Of concrete and is three and one
half miles long. with its top seventeen feet
above mean low water. 1t is founded on
piles and protected from undermining by
sheet piling and riprap. The sea face of
the wall Is curved so that it's upper portion
is vertical, and its rear face is filled behind
by an embankment the top of which is
paved with brick for a width of thirty-five
feet and planted with Bermuda grass for a
further distance of sixty-five feet. The
levee is 800 feet wide, with side slopes Of
one foot I'm twenty-five, and will be built
upon. The total cost OF the wall and levee
was over $i.00o.0Oo. Not many Northern
cities OF the population and resources of
Galveston would have undertaken so costly
a work.
The construction of the wall and levee
rendered it necessary to raise the grade of
the lower parts of the city an average of
seven feet, and this is the work for which
a contract has just been let. This raising
Of grade Will include not only the streets
and alleys. but buildings-in fact of the en-
tire portion of the city that was submerged
three years ago, bringing 1t up to a level
with the seawall. This work will cost fully
as much as the seawall and levee did, but
when it is done the entire city win be safe
and ready to resume with confidence it's
career as the greatest cotton exporting
port and fifth among the 127 foreign ex-
porting ports in the United States. In adj
dition to cotton Galveston is becoming an
important wheat and lumber exporting port
the export trade of the West which former
ly went to the Atlantic seaboard. Since
the great disaster of 1900 the city has shown
degree of enterprise of which any North
ern city might be proud.