The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-10

heavy artillery. which is encamped a
that place and starving because of tn
foods. which have completely sur
rounded the men and forced them t
flee to the hills.
scanty reports received at the pos
from the place where the battery is en-
camped show that the condition there
is critical. The only nourishment the
troops have had for several days con
sisted of chewing their feathers and
drinking the muddy flood water.
1t will take the engineers three days
at the least to reach their comrades
even though the marches will be forced
Two companies of infantry were also
sent to Kansas City, Kas.
TRAIN WILL SUE.
NEW YORK, June IA special to
the Sun from Stamford, Conn, says:
Citizen George Francis Train annOunc-
ed tonight that as soon as he should be
discharged from the. city smallpox camp
he would bring suit against the city
of Stamford for $50. 900 damages. AS he
cannot get any Stamford attorney to
take the case, he will put it in the
hands of "Rosey." the lawyer of the
Essex Market Police Court, New York,
and he is confident "Rosey' will win
out for him. He will give him half the
damages if he does.
Train announced further that he will
refuse to leave the care of the city
without receiving a new suit of clothes
to take the place of the suit that was
burned. This was famous suit of
clothes, he declares, and cost a lot of
money.
BONES OF CAVE-DWELLERS.
NEW YORK, May 3O.-A dispatch to
the Sun from Norman, o. T., saws:
Professor c. n. Gould has returned
from Southwestern Missouri, where he
inspected a cave of much archaeology
cal value. The cave is seventy feet
long, a hole dug out of solid rock. The
bottom is covered with ashes three feet
deep. 1t is believed that it was inhabit-
ed by cave-dwellers.
Out of the debris of ashes and clay
have been dug four human skeletons,
mails. The arms of these skeletons
were unduly long and the legs very
short. Flint instruments. knives, spear
heads and drills. as well as bone and
stone instruments. have been found in
profusion. Stalactites above the coat
of ashes in which these skeletons We're
found, must have taken thousands of
years to form.
Only four prehistoric skeletons have
been found up to the present. three in
Europe and one in America, conse- I
quently this find will prove of meal
culable benefit to scientists.
GERMAN GENERALS INCOM-
PETENT.
NEW YORK, May 3O.-A cable TO the 4
Journal from Berlin says: 1t is learned .
that the retirement of forty-four gen.
erals from the German army. which
has taken place within the past sixty
days, was due 10 the discovery that
most of them We're incompetent. In
some cases old age and similar causes
led to the retirement, but the majority
Of them were employed in the great
last autumn and committed
plumbers which excited the Kaiser's
wrath. Their names were entered on
the military blacklist, but they were
not Immediately dismissed for fear of
exciting a scandal Recently, however,
the offenders, one after another. re-
,eived an intimation that they had bet
-er resign. The hint was taken in all
,ases.
ANOTHER TESLA VAGARY.
NEW YORK. May So.-The sun
makes the following announcement:
1t is now little more than two years
since the Sun gave TO the world TesIa's
that. some time within
light months following. he would send
! wireless telegram across the Allan
ic. With the failure of that predic-
ion the public is familiar. although not
With the immediate cause As we I'M ;
lerstand it. progress toward fulfnment ]
evealed possibilities so much greater
nat it was determined TO aim at
higher mark, and we are now author :
zed to say, in Tesla's behalf. that some ,