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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29

THOMAS w. LAWSON gets down to
facts aud figures in the second part OF
his story of Amalgamated Copper re-
Gently published. lie first acknowledges
participation in the Rogers Rockefeller
deal by which the Daly'Haggin-Ievis
properties, purchased for $50, 600, OO0,
were foisted upon the public with the
Standard Oil 0. X. at $75, 600, 600 capt.
talization. Mr.. Lawson says, however,
that he protested against this course, but
was powerless to prevent it, and con-
scented onlyo certain agreements, which
were afterward disregarded He tells
with detail how the deal was carried out
10y manipulating the name and resources
of the National City Bank of New York,
and using employees as dummy directors
of fake corporation. In this connec-
ton the claim is made that the Standard
Oil system is based on just such CHI
canery, in which vast fortunes have been
actually created for the benefit of private
individuals. He says that there exists
today uncontrolled in the hands of a
set of men a power to make dollars from
nothing" and that it is possible today
for the bene6ciaries of this system tc
"steer" the selection Of the candidates
of both great parties for the highest Of
flee. Heexplains this, motor the theory
that there are more dishonest men now
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29
FIGHTING AT PORT ARTHUR

flGdTlNG Al fOhl AM II L.
The London Daily Mails Kobe cor
respondent, in a dispatch dated Satur-
day last, says:
Following is the POSITION of Port
Arthur: The Japanese have captured
all the outlying Notifications, but the
Russians still hold the citadel on Antse-
shan, Golden Hill fort and the forts on
Tigers Tail and LiaOti Mountain. The
japanese are in possession Of the parade
ground and barracks under the Antse-
shan fort on the outskirts. The fall OF
Port Arthur is believed to be imminent.
1t is believed that the garrison will
make a desperate sortie before the end
comes"
The London Chronicles correspon-
dent with General Kuroki, cabling under
date of August "a, via Fusan, August
%, says
"The japanese are now within the
main defenses and their guns command
the town. Desperate fighting occurs
night and day, aud the losses on both
sides are enormous. The Russians are
making furious counter attacks, but
the japanese are clinging to the po-
sitions they have won at so great a
cost"
According to a dispatch OF Yesterday
date from Liaoyang an artillery battle
has been in progress since s O'Clock yes
terday morning near that place. The
Russian main position, the dispatch
says, is what was formerly the outpost
line of the Liaoyang garrison. In the
fighting near Anping Friday the hus-
SLAMS abandoned 6 guns and lost over
| 800 men. They captured some Jap
anese guns.
A dispatch from Toxic says it is re-
ported that General Kuroki has seized
and cut the railroad south Of Mukden,
thus separating the Russian forces and
cutting Liaoyang off from direct line
of retreat, but confirmation of this re-
port cannot be obtained.
The Russians retired from An
shanshan Saturday after fight
which commenced on the morning
of August 26 and continued in a
desultory manner all day and night.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that
the disarmament of the cruiser Askold
and the destroyer Grozoyoi will begin to-
day, the ammunition, &C., being re-
moved to the Kiangnan arsenal. A
question has arisen as to the disposal OF
the crews, the Russians proposing to fol-
low the precedent set in the case of the
Mandinr, and send the men home on
parole at the first opportunity, the men
in the meantime remaining on board the
ships, while the japanese insist that the
same procedure be followed as at Using
tan and require the retention of the
crews in Chinese territory.
Rear Admiral Uriu's squadron will re-
main in the vicinity of shanghai until
the japanese conditions are fulfilled.
The japanese consul has warned the
Chinese authorities that his government
will not lightly regard further hesitation
or evasion of the fulfllment of the duties
of neutrality. 1t is expected that the
taotoi will suggest that the men be quar-
tered in the French settlement.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29

IL the great race that Is now on De-
tween the New York navy yard and
the Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock Company for honors in
battleship cOnstruction-a contest that
may settle the question of warship con
struction at government navy yards
the private yard in Virginia won the
first heat on Saturday, when ii launched
the 10000 ton battleship Louisiana.
In the launching of tho Louisiana an
other record was established, the new
battleship having the largest displace-
ment of any armorclad put overheard up
70 this time for the United States navy.
Her sister, the Connecticut, which is
building at the New-York navy yard,
will follow closely on the heels of the
Louisiana. the date tor her plunge bav-
ing been fixed for September %. The
time for the launching Of the Connecti-
cut was announced before the Louisiana
date was given to the public. When
she slid off tie ways Saturday the
Louisiana was "a per cent advanced to-
ward completion, or more than per cent
ahead Of the government ship, which
was started some months before the
Louisiana award was made to Newport
News. Now that the ship is in the
water. the Virginia shipyard officials eX-
pect to forge further ahead of the govern
ment builders, and are confident that
thew will have the louisiana in commits
sion some time before the flag is raised
over the Connecticut. The more i'm
portant competition is in expense. 1t
has always cost far more 10 build ship
IN anayy yard than by contract; bat
the Navy Department Is experimenting
this lime, audi. viii be interesting to SOC
when the work shall be completed how
the expense Of days work compares
with that OF contractors, aud how official
management compares with private
enterprise.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29
Revolt of sultan's Body Guard

Berlin, Aug. pa dispatch to the
Tageblatt from ConstantinOple states
that the Albanian body guard of the
Sultan at the Yildiz Kiosk have revolted
as the result of the non-payment of their
wages. Other troops were summoned
to subdue the Albanians, and fierce
fight ensued within the palace walls in
which several we're killed and wounded.
The latter included the Sultan's aide de
camp and the general commander of the
palace fire brigade. The Sultan has been
greatly disturbed by the occurrence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29
Hihernians at Roanoke.

The Ancient Order of Hibernians OF
Virginia is in annual session in Roanoke,
and elected officers last night. About
forty delegates are in attendance, and
the cities of Norfolk, Newport News
Portsmouth, Alexandra and Roanoke
are represented. The body attended
mass at St. Andrews Church yesterday,
and Rev. Father Lynch welcomed them
to Roanoke. Captain McHugh well
coined the visitors for Roanoke Division,
and J. P. Casey, of Portsmouth, re-
sponded.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29
Republican Convention

Especial Dispatch to the Alexandria Gazette.
Manassas, Va, Aug. 29.-The repub-
lican committee for this Congressional
district met at Manassas today and de-
cided to call district convention at
Alexandria on Tuesday, Sept. 9th, for
the purpose of nominating a candidate
for Congress.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29
The New York Stock Market.

New York, Aug. 29.--At the open
ing the stock market fulfilled the ex.
pectations of the majority of the traders,
displaying strength and good distri.
button Of dealings. Early gains ranged
FRONT to Z per cent. The weather map
showed lower temperatures with general
rains in the West.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29
DIED..

At ll:2O p. M, Sunday, August g, 1904,
FRANCIS G. PULLMAN, son Of Charles o.
and Irene Pullman, aged years and IS days
Funeral from the residence, S2l Duke Areet,
this Monday evening at o'clock Inter.
ment private.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29

=, was
-. No formal
out he was reported
III and has taken nourish-
The Olmpian games commenced at
2:S0 o'clock in the Stadium, in the
Worlds Fair grounds, at st. Louis, and
will continue through the week. Nearly
every athlete OF any prominence in the
world is entered.
George Cummings, vice president of
the American Press Association, died
suddenly yesterday at Banf, Northwest
Territory, while on his way from his
home in Los Angeles, CAL, to New
York. aged Sc years
President Roosevelt is putting the
finishing touches on his letter of accep-
lance, and between now and the first of
the month, when he expects to place
the manuscript in the hands of the
printer. very few callers will be received
at Sycamore Hill.
The great camp meeting at Ocean
Grove, n. j., was brought to close at
noon today by the grand march around
the auditorium, in which five thousand
persons participated. The administer
ing of baptism followed and q children
received the rite.
Senator Proctor, of Vermont, who
was in Boston yesterday to meet Senator
Fairbanks, who is to deliver an address
this afternoon at White River Junction,
VT, when asked for his estimate of the
size of the republican plurality in Yer
mont at next weeks election, replied
twenty-five thousand"
As result OF the discovery yesterday
of badly decomposed body, done up in
a sack in an almost identical manner in
which the body of Joseph II. HavOti
was found buried on the farm of Joseph
Marx, who is now in Jail awaiting trial
charged with murder, Sheriff Jackson is
in Colchester, Conn, today, investigating
the finding of the body, believing that
there is still another body buried on the
premises. The body discovered yester-
day is believed to be that of Paul
Parker, who formerly was employed by
Marx, and who disappeared.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
has awarded to the Standard Steel Car Com
pany Of Butler, Pa, a contract for the con
structiOn Of one thousand 4O-feet drop-end
gondolas.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29
Puta an End to IL All,

A grieviOus vail oftimes comes as a result
of unbearable pain from over taxed organs:
Dizziness, Backacke, Liver complaint and
Constipation. But thanks to DIR. Kings
New life Pills they put an end TO it all.
They are gentle but thorough Try them.
Only 25c Guaranteed by E. S. Leadbeater i
Sons. Druggist
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29

A sudden attack at night of some form Of
Bowel Complaint may come to anyone. Every
family should be provided with bottle of
DR.. SETH ARSoLD's BALsAM. Warranted
nv W. F. Creighton & Co.. Warfeld & Hall
and Edgar Warfeld, jr., Alexandria.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29
Young Women Fight Duel.

Jealousy has lead two young won en-,
named Maria Vega Gonzalez, aged II,
and Maria Gonzalez Garcia, aged 10,
both of Madrid, to fight duel under ex-
traordinary circumstances, and with
fatal results to both. They were cousins
and both were exceedingly beautiful girls.
Unfortunately both had fallen in love
with A Young and handsome youth, who
refused to show preference for either
Their jealousy of each other grew so In
tense that they finally decided to fight a
duel to the death. The encounter took
place Saturday. Providing themselves
Ni.h knives, they climbed out on the
roof OF an uu,tnanted house, and, taking
of their upper garments, attacked each
other great fury. The fight was wit
messed by several spectators from a house
opposite and is described as being Of an
exceptionally desperate character. Both
girls we're soon covered with blood. They
constantly became clicked" together,
and hacked at each others back with
their knives. The spectators shrieked
lOudly for the police, but when they ar
rived and succeeded in getting access to
the roof. both girls were lying across
each other, MORALLY wounded, presents
ing fearful spectacle. One died while
being taken to the hospital and the other
succumbed few hours later.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29

than formerly, but by saying that at no
other period in our history "has honesty
been so completely steered by dishon-
o.t,, -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29
rELEGRAPHIC BREW

Willie Mahoney, four years
four stories and landed on the
in New York, withouia brulsN
Triplets we're born ''
and Mrs. Goldh
Each "'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29

FOR SALE.-The famous LEE COALa al
the lowest market prices.
W. A. sMOOT h CO.
10 barrels CHOICE PICKLES Just 70
oeived nv &c MIIRfTRN
ZEST, the new cereal food, Just received
~ j. G.. hTIBURN
FAT AACKEREL ror sale at &c, lOc. ID
and Zoe each by ]. c. MILBURN
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29
The Market,

Georgetown, Aug. 29.-Wheat 9OAsl.c5.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-29

~ was
>. No formal
Out he was reported
III and has taken nourish-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-19
ANNIVERSARY.

1t seems the year remembers and it brings
Across the hillsides familiar light
The orchard lands put on accustomed white,
And all old time beloved April things
Come back for welcome; flower and bird and leaf
Each in its place cry out against my heart
AS if the very sprngtime guessed the part
1t held in this dear festival of grief
All you that for year have been with God;
Must the soft spendor of this wstful day
And keep fath-aone remembering?
Your daffodils blaze in the garden sod
Your apple boughs drift white in their old way
Is Heaven SO far you do not know it's spring?
Arthur Ketcham.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-19

Now. there is Captain Cowles. of the
Missouri He saved the ship after it
wasn't blown up. 'Rah for Cowles!
One great advantage the Russians pos
sess. Even the Pikers' pesky punster
cannot use their names in demon puns.
Suppose writer seeking a joke should
try TO Makaroff of Petropavlovsk- He
would strike d mine and sink in his own
estimation.
Some congressman should introduce a
bill appropriating a few thousand dollars
to build up the Washington baseball
team. 1t kept at the bottom of the list
all last year and starts out that way this
year.
The statehood bill is promised today
Statehood itself is another matter.
Congress can well afford to adjourn
early. Being campaign year the mem
bers can have unlimited opportunity
to talk as they have while congress is in
session.
That grounding carried the joke alto
gethcr too far this year. From February
days
Point to Lawyers-They used to say
that if you wanted to know the proper
penalty for a crime you should consult
Blackstones works; but if you wanted to
escape that penalty you should consult
Blackstone himself.
(..)o-o(..l
Customer-Do l need a haircut?
Barber-No; II looks real well.
* c. (after shave)-Should / have some
sure-cure- for -dandruff?
B.-No: your head is exceedingly clear
OF dandruff.
C.-Put on little hair oil.
b wouldn't If | were you. 1t has
tendency to stiffen the hair.
Moral.-Any barber would know this is
fable before he had read the third line.
O-O-0-O
If you are troubled with sleeplessnesS
take look at some of the late-style fancy
vests. If that doesn't cure you try pricing
them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-19

The shadow of the coming presidential
campaign hangs over both houses of CON
gress embittering the speeches OF their
members respectively. The business OF
the session has all been disposed of practically and the
people of the country large without regard to party
would rather the gavel fall concurrenty with the words
''sine die" This watching and waiting for party
advantage is improbable and without promise being
only provocative OF invecve The din of speeches
irksome Who any farther enlightenment for in
stance the canal from Morgan? If the ras-
Gals haven't all discovered indicted and convicted
they will be just surely whether congress is in ses-
sion not so long Roosevelt remains at the helm.
Not another speech will be made that is not purely for
campaign consumption and there is time enough for
such later Unquestionably the universal demand of
the people and OF every interest of the country is for
immediate adjournment of congress-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-19
GIVE KANSAS CREDIT.

Just now Kansas is the victim of great many I'M
favorable from the press the country be-
of the Burton chapter her history the
newspapers which commenting Burton's crime
and conviction say anything about the disgrace to Kan
sas" in connection with it. many of them Atten-
ton is drawn also the various which Kansas
has produced in daye gone and the held up to
reproaCh
Kansas is state of extremes. Although Senator Bur
ton is credited to the Sunhower commonwealth her news
paper critics should also that Kansas is re-
sponsbie for Joseph l. Brstow One year Kansas may
be solid Republican state and the she may just
the other way. There time when this com
nonwealth referred "drouthy Kansas" yet it
broke all records for destructive practically
desert it is the worlds greatest granary far dis
tancing all other states in raising wheat We are peo-
pie of superlatives.
So while Kansas may have sent Joseph Ralph Burton
to the United States senate should receive credit
for furnishing the country with Joseph l. Bstow the an
tthess of Burton. 1t is singular coincidence that the
two resided the Of their political careers IN
adjoining counties While the people of Kansas as a
whole by responsible for Burton it is true
that the state must bear certain opprobrum
because of his acts but should also be given
credit for the good things which she given the coun-
try.-Topeka Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-19
KANSAS FIELDS OF OIL AND WHEAT.

The farmer who in the oil belt is becom-
ing less and less farmer except the applies
the man who lives beyond the city the townse. The
cultivation of his land yields less that
secure employee of the oil companies He either
plants the land crops that will with little
tenton allows it lie idle and sells his services
the company. The oil boom has made is impossible for
him to tenant for the that if he finds
the oil company good employer the advantage ap
peal also to the laborer This is the energetic farmer
who feels that he must be doing something
There is another class less inclined work. which
likes the feel of riding the tide prosperity
ipulatng figures which represent unearned increment
They don't raise wheat they have the inclin
alton TO haul it market They don't raise hogs be-
they disposed to grow the with which
to feed them. They find sufficient happiness and reward
in the contemplation of their good fortune
Not all of the who have sold oil leases their
farms the road TO wealth. the majority of them
will be independent. The royalties that
ing in will them of as much Others have been
exceptionally favored and through good sales of
their property good investments placed their credit
healthy in the state banks
Discoveries of oil in Kansas have done no more for
the farmers than have the gas wells done for
the towns in the oil belt Little hamlets that found
existence hearess struggle and the contemplation of
adverse circumstances the chief occupation are now con-
verted into cities by virtue Of the nearby wells
tories been attracted and industries have come in
procession values OF town property went upward by
bounds. There is not sufficient number OF building
mechanics demand for new homes or business
buildings and this is the alone that can curb
boom spirit.
The acreages of Kansas corn and wheat the sale of
live stock and produce necessarily be smaller than
they have been during the years just past until
who formerly cultivated the land lying the
become acclmated to the new conditions The hurrah
which pervades the territory viii be moduated and
whether the oil and gas fields long short
state will have received lasting benefit in the way
more substantial towns. homes and old from
which the skeleton disappeared with the last payment
the mortgage-Leavenworth Times
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-19
couNIIEs BIGGER THAN STATES.

Woodward and Woods counties Oklahoma very
large counties there being few counties in the United
States larger and these larger counties hiny popu
lated districts Of the Rocky mountains Routt county
Colorado By 80 miles square. Woodward county,
Oklahoma is Al miles square, and Woods county 40 by
A The smaller of these countless Woods contains,
approximately 27S4 square miles of territory being 40
per larger than of Rhode Island nearly
large Connecticut Delaware and capable of sup
porting probably larger population than either of the
states named writer, who may be little mixed up
his figures that he people living in the south
of the county nearly eighty miles from the
county seat at Ava necesstatng days travel by team
and rail reach the county seat an outlay of
So 81 in expenses The people of the north
about forty miles from the county
while those of the southwest of the county
travel about sixtythree miles get to the county
Twothrds of the taxpayers Of the county have
travel of about hirtyve miles Alva days
time and travel and expenses"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-19
MANY CANCERS AND INcURARLE.

At the annual meeting of the directors of the London
Hospital Dr. Herbert Snow the senior surgeon
specialist of many years experience spoke in
very dscouragng way of the prospects for important
in the of the dreadful disease with which
he has bated for half lifetime Dr. insists that
is disease, but many. distinguishes
generic thirteen specific FORMS all of them
this expert believes established in the body by sep
He argues that every form of disease
monty called be studied from the beginning
separately and with infinite panstaking.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-19


party sprang into existence. There doubling
Thomases who will view this prediction with skeptcism
but it will be verified in November The recent Populist
convention in Topeka great factor in the
There thousands of honest Populists the
state who the fence hoping against hope that
their party might rise to the emergency give them
political home. They the empty faacy of such
hope and will hesitate longer They will back
under the banner of Roosevelt and Hoch Smith
alone Populist leaders declare that the Republican
and national ticket is stronger
before the recent Topeka convention And it is all
the state There will be loud demonstration. 1t
will be gradual steady that the full significance
of it will not be realized until the counted
the close of the polls November s. The Populist
party reared false theories and unrest destined
last but day In Kansas there is abiding place
for Democracy The and native temperament
against it. and when conditions natural and
there abnormal and distorted confronting
the people Kansas votes but way-Repubican. And
might added that this particularly normal year
Topeka Capital
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-19
THE PLATFORMS OF THE CANDIDATES.

c. NJ Brown Peoples candidate for governor of Flor
ida adveTtises himself thus in the newspapers of his
state "Ffy-six years citizen of this soldier
under General E Lee from last day, Carries
four Yankee bullets a gentle reminder of that great
bloody struggle. The friend of the peope."
Here is Browns platform: "The farming aboring
his first consideration. Good wages for honest
work. Liberal pensions. Liberal school policy. The pri
mary. The railroad commission. Hard roads Econom-
ca administration. Payment of the debts. Regua
criminal corporations trusts of Deeds"