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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04

brigades of Bee and Barlow of john
ston's army fighting to stay the Fed
eral adyance.) after fighting there
for some time our boys ran back from
Buck Hill over to the Henry place,
and the Yankees after them. More
men kept coming from towards Manas-
sas.'' CThe whole of Beauregard and
Johnston's armies were taking posi-
ton on the Henry farm.) Then the
Yankees followed up Henry Hill. The
shooting had got so furious now that
we couldn't hear any single musket,
and the firing of the cannon was so
fast that only once in a while could
we pick out a single shot. The coun-
try down there was now SO covered
with dust and smoke that we couldn't
see the men, and though they We're
shouting we could not distinguish the
shouting from the shooting. Now and
then we could see lines of men running
across the Chinn place, this side of
the Henry farm, as though they were
running to get into the smoke and dust
and shooting. 1t was an awful sight.
Every little while a cannon ball or
shell would come over our way, but we
were all too interested and excited to
mind it. About four O'Clock in the
afternoon the noise was at its loudest
and we could see small bodies of men
going back across the Matthews place
and on towards Sudley. Then more
went back that way, and finally the
field got so full of them and they made
such a dust running that we couldn't
see them. The shooting quieted down
so we could hear single shots, and the
dust in the Henry field got higher and
thinner. We knew the Yankees were
running. About six o'clock that even
ing my husband and drove over to
the Henry place. The old house was
heap of smoking ashes. My old friend
Mrs. Judith Henry. who was sick in
bed. had been killed that morning by
shell which broke through the house
and burst in her bedroom. All the
trees about the place had been shot
down SO that only the stumps were
Parties of Colfederates
were picking up dead men and buPying
them, but plenty of corpses were still
lying around, we saw q great many
wounded men, and many of them were
begging for water. Dead hGFses were
lying around everywhere, and the field,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04

canal will be built, even though en-
canal will be built, even though the en-
gineers are compelled to go a mile deep
for a foundation for their works. The
United States will never add chapter
to the history of the de Lesseps failure.
Even if the canal is to cost billion
dollars instead of the $200000,000 that
has been estimated, it will be put
through. But it may happen many
times before the job is done that, as
Mr.. Payne suggests, the people will re
call those all-night speeches Of old
Senator Morgan and be willing to have
them enrolled among the masterpieces
of American oratory."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04
aTHE BELLE or BATTLES :
RELICS OF THE BATTLEFZELDS
OF BULL RUN.

Two Ancient Citizens Who Viewed
the Slaughter and Cared for the
Mounded.-B Still Living on
the battle-ground.
t'The Belle of Battles is a title-a
sort of a nom de guerre-borne by
venerable woman who lives at Grove
ton, Prince William county, Virginia,
a war-worn hamlet in that blood
soaked region wherein the first and
second battles of Bull Run and scores
Of less sanguinary engagements were
fought. Groveton is a hamlet of
tragic memories. 1T is on the War
renton turnpike five miles west of Cen
treville, three miles east of Gaines
vile, five miles north of Manassas and
two miles south of Sudley. These
were important names in the heroic
age Of the Republic.
Though the old lady was known to
the men of the Federal armies of the
Potomac and Virginia, and to the
Confederate army of Northern Vir-
GINA, and is still known the country
round as '"The Belle of Battles, her
nSroe is Mrs. Lucinda Dogan. She is
ninety years old, has an excellent
memory, good teeth, does not wear
Eyeglasses and can walk miles at q
stretch.
Ninety Year Old Witnesses,
August %, 90 and 80 are the battle
days of the Second Bull Run. August
80 was Mrs. Dogan's ninetieth birth
day. The forty-third anniversary of
the defeat of Pope by Lee and Jack
son will be celebrated on the field of
Groveton, the centre of the opposing
armies, by reunion Of veterans ana
a birthday celebration for the Belle
of Battles. The two observances VIII
be so interviewer that it would be hard
to separate one from the other. An
other feature of the observance will be
that particular prominence will be
given to an old-time colored man
whose name Is Jim Redmond. Red
mond is also ninety years old. i
Groyeton is q group of three houses
at a erossroad. Mrs, Dpgan lives in
one house, Redmond in another and
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04
By An Eye Witness.

"The Yankees were all around Cen
+reviIe and our boys were laying
along Bull Run. Some of our troops
kept coming through Gainesville from
the Valley" This was Johnstons
army which had slipped away from
Patterson's troops in the ShenandoaA
valley and was reinforcing Beaure-
oordl early Sunday morning we
heard shooting down the pike towards
fine Stone Bridge, and my husband
called out that the YankS We're COM
ING. We went up to the top of that
hill wonder and some of the neignpofs
also came up. We could see the
smoke rising above the trees about
the Stone Bridge.n This was Tyler
division of the Union army engaging
Cooke and Evans brigades posted on
the extreme Confederate left) ION
towards Sudley we could see clouds
OF dust rising over the woods" This
was Mcdowell with the divisions OF
Hunter and HeintZelman executing
the flank movement. after the
shooting had been going on for half
an hour we could see crowds OF men
running back from the Stone Bridge
to the Sudley road and then going
north towards Sudley. Southern
troops were coming up from towards
Manassas, marching across the Henry
farm, then over Buck Hill and on to-
wards Sudley" CThe Confederates
had discovered the Union turning
movement and were preparing to
check it, fNot long after all this, the
shooting began between the pike and
Sudley. We could hear the sharp
cracking of the muskets and the loud
reports of the cannon, and could heal
men shouting. Not long after, the
men who had marched towards Sudley
came running back through thu
woods and over the fields. stopping t.
shoot now and then. More Confed
crates were coming from Manassas
and were forming on Buck Hill ant
the Matthews farm" (These were TIT
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04

proposition to join Lakes Superior
and Michigan 1875 miles west of Sault
Ste. Marie. 1t is contemplated to uti-
lie White Fish River, which flows
from very near the north shore of the
northern peninsula of Michigan south
ward into the Little Bay de Noquette,
due north of Chicago. OF the 40 miles
across the peninsula only about 16
would need to be dredged.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04
The Famous Moseby Men.

Mrs. Dogan's house was the rendez-
vous of Moseby's Rangers" scouts"
"bushwhackers,' pirates" variously
called, many of whom are still living,
scattered throughout Northern Vir-
ginia, The morning after Moseby
took General Stoughton and staff, pris-
oners at Fairfax court house, the
whole party ate breakfast at Mrs. Do
gan's. The old lady was a star wit
ness in the Congressional inquiry into
the Fitz-John Porter case. She testi-
fed that Longstreet and staff took
breakfast with her on the morning of
August 20 and that regiments of his
corps were marching down the pike
from Gainesville. This did much to
establish Porter's contention that
when he and his division lay behind
Dawkin's branch on August % Long
streets whole corps was in front of
him extending from Jackson's right at
Groveton.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04
PASTURE LAND IN A MAPLE SUGAR
GROVE.

pounds annually. An interesting illus
trated bulletin has been published by
the Department of Agriculture, giving
a detailed description Of methods of
sugar and syrup making, and also In
formation and advice as to the best
methods of planting and caring for
maple groves to insure the highest re-
turns to their owners. The bulletin al
SO Describes the various methods and
practices of adulteration largely in
vogue, some of which are hurtful to
health, while others are simply frauds
practiced on the purchaser.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04
Warned of Second Battle.

Warned of Second Battle.
1t was more than n year later. All
gust %, 1862, that Mrs. Dogap, after
clearing up the breakfast dishes, was
told by staff officer of StOHeWall
jackson to move off her farm, as there
would be fighting there that day.
There had been heavy fighting the day
before around GAINESVILLE, three miles
down the pike, and the night before
Jackson had taken up his position
along the abandoned railroad bed from
GAINESVILLE to Sudley, and which passes
about 500 yards back of the pogan
house, there to await the coming OF
Longstreet through Thoroughfare> Gap
and the approach of General Pope
with the Union army from the direc-
ton of Manassas. Mrs. Dngan had
not reached her fathers house, two
miles away, when a Union battery and
supports took station near the nngan
house and opened on Jackson's line.
All that and the next day there was
fierce and bloody fighting around Grove
ton. OF the conditions there sne
said:
Funeral parties of both armies
were burying the dead, though they
had not long been at this horrible
work, The Confederates dug long,
deep trenches and laid their men in
the ground that way. The Union
burial parties only shoVeled mounds
of dirt over the bodies where they
lay, and two or three days later a
heavy rain made the field hideous.
When the children and | got home
parties of men were collecting the
wounded and putting them in rows
here in the yard and wherever there
was shade. Doctors were cutting OH
legs and arms and the moaning was
awful. They hadn't brought in all the
wounded. There were hundreds scat
tered all around the farms. The Gnu.
dren and took buckets of water GU,
into the fields and we worked thai
way all day and into the night, doing
what we could for the poor fellows
Most Of the wounded on our farm
were Yankees, but that didn't make
any difference to us after they go
hurt, All our bed sheeting and table
linen went for bandages."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04
Even IfIt Costs a Billion.

The Des Moines Register and Leader,
in discussing the Panama Canal ques-
ton, says that cit is probably safe, as
the result of all that is being said, to
conclude that the government has en-
gagged upon an experiment that will
cost more in time and money than any
one has been willing to admit. But the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04
~~NSs2@S9N--e-SS -
Bo1L1Ne MApLE gYRuP N rHr OLD FAsHIoNEp way

reaching the other end in the form of
syrup. This is practically the form of
evaporator in use to-day. Improve
ments have been made in the method
of firing, and from the old, rough fire
box has been evolved the modern
portable arch, made of iron, lined with
fire brick and provided with CRATE bars
and accurate hampers, SO that the heat
is more regular, while no smoke is al
lowed to escape.
Steam Pipe Evaporators.
Probably the latest improvement in
syrup making is that adopted by a
manufacturer in the Adirondacks. A
series of steam pipes is placed in the
evaporating pan and the sap made to
flow around them. The process is
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04
MAKING MAPLE SUGAR.
THE AMERICAN INDIANS THE
FIRST SUGAR PRODUCERS.

nGY dropped NCo HUI otOh(S AAeO
the Sap.-The Present Industry an
Important One.-Much Adulteras
ton.
From time unknown the Indians
tapped the sugar maple trees for
sweets. They made diagonal cuts in
the trunk and drove reeds or pieces of
concave bark into the lower ends to
convey the liquid into bark trough
OF other receptacle. They boiled the
sap by dropping hot stones into IT., ln
some cases they allowed the liquid to
freeze. and by throwing out the ice
sufficient water was removed to allow
the syrup to crystalline.
For hundred years or more the con-
ditions of producing maple sugar
changed but slightly over those prac-
ticed by the Indians, except that the
cooking vessels were made of iron or
copper in place of vessels of clay or
bark
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04

pretty we'll turned up by shells and
QlIM p9I9llII 4snf sgM 'sI99UM 6I9TInIe
muskets, bayonets, belts, caps, KNAPP
sacks and coats"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04
PENSIONS.

Over one Million Dollars
allowed our clients during the last
six years.
Over one Thousand
claims allowed through us dur
ing the last six months. Dis
ability, Age and In
Gre a $ G pensions obtained
in the shortest possible time.
WidOwss claims speciality.
Usually granted within 90
days if placed with us irnmedi-
ately on soldiers death. Fees
fixed by law and payable out of
allowed pension. A successful
experience of rs years and benefit
of daily calls at Pension Bureau
are at your service. Highest ref
erences furnished. Local Magis-
trates pecu MAR ily
benefited by sending US
claims.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04
Sugar Gang in the Woods.

The boiling was generally done in the
open woods, and with no shelter from
the weather, leaves, pieces of bark,
ashes, drippings from the trees and
other impurities fell into the open
pals and kettles. The Old-fashioned
potash kettle was suspended over the
fire from one end of long, heavy pole,
which, by weights at the other end,
could be easily manipulated, either to
regulate the distance from the heat, or
to swing the kettle on or off the fire
a crude crane. Sugar was made by
boiling down the thin syrup until 1t be-
came waxy when dropped into the
snow then it was ready to be poured
into the moulds. The increasing de-
mand for maple sugar has brought with
it revolutionary methods.
One of the first changes was the
adoption of the augur hole and wooden
or metal spout in place of the old de-
structiFe ax-eut and open wooden
spout. AT first the sap was generally
carried to the fire or sugar house in
buckets by hand or with a shoulder
yoke but as the scale of operations
Increased the gathering tank was intro
dueed, and where the work Is on a.
large scale, pipes are often run through
the nbush,n as the grove ia sometimes
called, connecting with the sugar house
or with the large storage tanks on the
roadside, while in one large Adifon-
dack sugar grove q narrow gauge rail-
way is used for collecting sap,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-04
The Passing of the Kettle.

About the middle of the nineteenth
century there was a change in the &c
tual process of sugar making, through
the adoption of an iron pan in place of
the old kettle. The earliest form of
eyaporator was probably a shallow pan
about 30 inches wide, 6 inches deep,
and from to 10 feet In length. This
was supported by a thin-walled fire-box
of stone or brick. The greatest por-
tion Of the under surface of this pan
being exposed to the heat of the fire,
caused more rapid evaporation, the use
of less fuel and a quality of syrup and
sugar far better than by the kettle
method. The manufacture of this new
style of pan led to the erection of build
ings for their shelter. Then followed
a form of pan with partitions to cause
IN alternating flow, this Improvement
Glowing the sap to enter at one end of
The evaporation and to flow from side to
side through succeeding compartments,
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-26
GENERAL ShAKE-UPI
In STATE DEPARTMENT

Washington, Oct. 26.-The admins
tration has determined upon defi-
mite propaganda completely reorganiz
ing the diplomatic and consular serv-
ice. Mr.. Root proposes to urge con-
gress through the president to ac-
quire homes for our ambassadors and
principal ministers in foreign lands.
Just now Secretary Root is com
pletely reorganizing the personnel of
the state department force. He has
already changed the chief clerk of the
department and has trongly intimat-
ed to Third Assistant Secretary of
State Pierce that his place will be
wanted soon, The head of the diplo-
matte and consular bureau is also un-
aerstood to have come under the die
eliminating eye of the new secretary;
and he, too, will be displaced. This
is the important bureau which now
has charge of the deciphering al ali
dispatches and the placing in cipher
of the confidential messages sent out
by the secretary of state, and will be
a position of the highest confidence
in its relations with the secretary of
state. The bureau also has charge
of the special mail pouches sent by
our government to our representa-
tives obroad, and also has the conf
dental files of the department under
It's authority
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-26
FAIR PRESIDENCY
TO BE FILLED

The city papers have announced
the determination of George l..
Brooks to refuse the presidency of the
twenty-sixth annual territorial fair,
and In his published card MIR. Brooks
gives his reasons, much to his regret,
that owing to certain contemplated
improvements mapped oaS for next
summer, and which will need his per.
sonal attention, he could not accept
the honor conferred upon him with.
out great sacrifice to his own inter-
ests."
The withdrawal of Mr.. Brooks will
necessitate the secretary calling an
otner mass meeting for the purpose
of electing some one to fill the va
cancy.
Today number of names have been
mentioned for the fair preildency,
and they are all good people. The
Citizen representative has heard the
qualifications of the following gentle
men for president, discussed: George
Arnot, Felix Lester, Ivan Grunsfeld,
Darby A. Day, j. j. Sheridan, Wallace
Hesselden, Simon Stern, o. N. Mar
ron, ID. A. Macpherson, Solomon
Luna, p. F. McCanna, B. H. Briggs,
and M. Nash, and either one OF these
gentlemen, If chosen by a mass meet
ing, or otherwise, would prove en-
tirely satisfactory TO The Citizen, and
this paper would be found In the band
wagon, helping to make the mex Iair
one of the biggest, if not the biggest,
ever held.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-26
WILLIAM GIBBS DIES
AT SOLDIERS HOME
ALBUQUERQUE VETERAN sUc-
cUMBs TO STROKE OF PARALY-
SIS AT ADVANCED AGE OF 7a
YEARS.

A. Harsch, proprietor of the Harsch
Bottling Works, received a letter to-
day from William E. Sherman, form
erly of this city, but now an inmate
of the Soldiers Home, Los Angeles
county, California, conveying the sad
news Of the death at the home on Sat
urday last of Comrade William Gibbs.
Comrade Gibbs left Albuquerque a
little over a year ago for the Sol
diers' Home, and was followed a snort
time after by his wife, who was with
him at the time of his death. The
direct cause of his demise was paraly-
sis. He suffered a stroke some months
ago, and had been failing rapidly ever
since.
William Gibbs was born in Chester
field county, Virginia, and was about
73 years of age. He enlisted in the
Union army December g. 1856, as a
private in the Fifth United States In
fantry, and was discharged August
80 1864, having served eight years
and' three months.
The deceased was a pioneef of AL
buquerque and during the last few
years of his residence here, he con-
Quoted a timers shop on Gold ave-
nue.. He was one of the veterans of
this city, having settled here in the
SOS. He was a member of G. X.
Warren Post, No. 8, and had served as
junior vice commander Of the post.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-26
CONFERENCE ON INTERSTATE COM
MERGE LAW BROKE IN TWO BODIES

Chicago, H., oct. 26-Several thou
sand delegates, representing com
mercial, industrial and other organiza-
tions in all parts of the United States,
are in attendance at the interstate
commerce law congress, which opened
here at the auditorium today. Mr.. f..
p. Bacon, of Milwaukee, who had
signed the call for the conference,
opened the session and delivered an
address, in which he explained the
object Of the meeting and the import
anCe Of its action in impressing con
gress with the necessity of passing
laws extending the power Of the in
terstate commerce commission, in ac-
cOrdance with the recommendation
contained in President ROOsevelts
message TO congress.
In his last annual message Presi-
dent Roosevelt recommended: The
interstate commerce commission TO be
vested with power, where given rate
has been challenged, and after a fNl
hearing found TO be unreasonable, to
decide, subject to judicial review,
what shall be the reasonable rate TO
take its place, the ruling of the com
mission taking effect Immediately,
and TO obtain, unless and until IL is
reversed by the court OF review" The
conference will seek to arouse public
interest in the movement and TO ex-
ert sufficient pressure upon congress to
bring about the passage OF the de-
sired laws.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-26
QUARANTINES ARE
RAPIDLY BEING LIFTED

New Orleans, La, Oct. 26.-That the
whole country has faith in the assur-
ances of the federal officers that the
fight against yellow fever is prac-
tically ended, is shown by the rapidity
with which the quarantines are being
lifted. Meridian, Miss, has finally
thrown her gates open to the world,
and that means the complete resump-
tiOn of travel over the Queen & Cres-
cent road from Cincinnati to New
Orleans. Practically all of the towns
along the Mississippi gulf coast have
removed restrictions, Biloxi, being the
last. Large numbers of persons who
have been on the coast since the fe-
yer started are coming into New Or
leans. AS the result of heavy frosts
q large number OF Mississippi towns
have discharged their inspectors and
ordered the removal of all embargoes
on travel, Jackson, Miss, and Mobile,
Ala, being exceptions.