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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-06-01
Anadarko Isolated.

Anadarko. Okla. May 3i.--Anadarko
Is now cut OF from the world Until
Tuesday trains were able TO reach this
point by way OF the Frisco from Enid
90 Hobart and then 70 this city. but
now the Canadian bridge on that road
IL also out
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-06-01
Skull Fractured.

Washington. May Si.-The state de-
partment has received the following ca
blegram from Toxic. dated Wednesday:
"Rojestvensky's skull Is fractured. re-
quiring an operation; serious. but not
dangerous Total japanese losses 10
date. three torpedoboats sunk. three Of
ficers killed. about 200 men killed and
disabled"
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-06-01
Sinh, Win All Hands.

London. May Si-The Toxic corres-
pondent OF the Daily Express reports
that the cruiser Cromoboi of the Vlad-
ivostok squadron with nearly 500 men
on board. issued from Vladivostok with
the hope OF Joining the remnant of Ro-
jestvensky's fleet and that IL struck a
japanese mine and sunk with all
hands
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Are Al sasebo.

NagasakL May 3i.-Captain. chief
engineer and two seamen OF the British
steamer oldhamia have arrived at Sa-
sebo. The oldhamia. which was bound
from Hongkong for japan, was captur-
ed by a Russian steamer May 21. AZ
frst Il was reported an American ves-
sci had been captured.
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Thrice Wounded.

London. May 3i.-The ST Peters
burg correspondent of the Standard
asserts that Mime. Rojestvensky's wife
OF the commander OF the Russian fleet.
has received a telegram from Vladlvo-
stok. signed by her husband. saying
that he had arrived there on board the
cruiser Almaz and that he was severe
~ wounded IN the neck back and alb
domen
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-06-01
Iittls plseiplIne.

Victoria, y. c.. May 3i.-Advices re-
ceived by the steamer Empress Of Ja-
pan include interviews with German
masters OF colllers which had been sup
plying Roiestvensky's fleet with coa'
when az Kongkohe Bay. The Germans
said that only one or two Russian ships
there had such discipline az one ex-
poets on a warship. Officers seemed e
be hne men. but the latter appeared
dlsinclined TO work.
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Nearly AnnihIlatsd.

Toxic. May 3i-Admiral Togo has
wired Admiral Yamamoto. minister OF
the navy. as follows THE main force
OF Russian Second and Third fleets Is
nearly annihilated. Please feel assur-
cd OF It."
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-06-01

the Muskogee compress. which has
been idle for the last three years and
viii spend $4,000 improving the plant.
which will be ready for operation Sept.
I. New warehouses are 10 be built and
the capacity Of the compress Increased.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19
BY A. Frederick Collins

THE horseless carriage, the track
less trolley and the seatless car
are things we have grown accus-
toned to, but the seedless apple is
new discovery placed upon the market
for our delectation.
The new variety is destined to do FOR
the apple what the seedless species mas
done for the orange, and more, for in
the former not only are the seeds elm
mated but there is no core, and saw
ing Of at least twenty-five per cent OF
the apple is thus easily effected.
From Colorado comes this new Won
der. not from the Garden Of the Gods,
where such fruit might be supposed to
have originated. but 1t came from
farther west. across the Rockies, out
Of the great fruit district around Grand
Junction. There. where apple growing
has been reduced to an exact science
John f. Spencer began experimenting
ten or twelve years ago, believing 1t
possible to develop the occasional
freak" seedless apple found into a
product of recognized stability and
having all the elements Of CONNER
cial commodity.
Finally Mr.. Speneer's perseverance
was rewarded and he succeeded in
getting five trees that bore practically
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19

waited for daylight. There were about
forty policemen and a crowd of report
ers around the place all night and l
was nervous for fear some fool would
shoot the lion, whose value was in
creasing every minute, so l kept awake
and did heap of thinking.
Il knew that Wallace would fight for
his kill as long as any of it was left.
so we rugged up tackle to try and
draw the carcass out. We were all
ready at daylight and the crowd was
bigger than ever. Say, If you want to
count the idle people in New York get
up free show at any hour of the day
or night. We were just getting ready
to make a try for the horse when up
drives an express wagon, loaded with
nets and ropes and all sorts of animal
catching stuff. Rarnum's press agent
and four of the animal men had come
down from the winter quarters of the
show in Bridgeport to capture lion
which they heard was loose in Central
park and this job looked easy to them.
One of them, a man named Mcdonald,
had been with our English show and
when he heard that it was Wallace they
were to tackle his enthusiasm seemed
to melt. He told the others about him
and two of them went to find the cock
ney, 1 guess, for we never saw them
again.
I'VE managed to throw slip moose
around the carcass from the stairs, and
when we passed the end Of the rope out
of the window there must have been
soc men pulling on it, from the way
that horse slid across the floor. The
four of us stood around the trap door
with clubs to beat Wallace back, and
when he realized that his prey was be-
ing taken from him it kept us busy.
Say, a dead horse seems to have
more legs than a centipede when you
try to drag it through narrow space.
and they all stick out in different di-
lections OF course 1t stuck and then
there was more trouble, for when 1
took an ak to dismember it a cop
threatened to arrest me for cutting up
a horse in the city limits. 1t took three
hours to get a permit from the board
of health, and then had long, sick
ening job, for the weather had been
hot and we had to haul up what was
left of the poor beast in pieces and
Wallace kept swapping at them and
rushing at us. We gave him several
nasty cracks over the snout, the only
place where a lion seems to be sensi-
tive of pain, but it only made him
uglier than ever, and knew we had a
pretty fight ahead of us. 1t was a
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19

ing out so far that you could hava
hung your hat on 'em.
Bill he says, tell the old man to
put on full steam, for I'm backslidins
an I've got 'em again. Look therel
Bill looks down the aisle and gets un-
easy too
Hank, he says, I'VE got 'em, like
wise, only that amt my usual snake,
cos he amt got no plug hat with
red flannel band around It on his head
but me for the bromide
"1ts this Internal Jersey whisky
that's changed EN- answers Bill, for
mine always has gorlllas ridin' EN-
We'll looked around and / would
have been scared myself, only recog-
nized our bunch, each one of 'em with
the tail Of the snake in front of him
in his mouth. Old Timber Larry
we called him that because he always
used to go to sleep tied up in true
lovers knot-was In the lead, and be-
hind him came about half a mile of
snakes. They were festooning them
selves up the aisle, coming slow, be-
cause there was a couple of 'em that
couldn't move very fast and when the
gait got too lively they used to bite
their leaders tails. Old Larry was
raising his head and looking aroupd
every few feet and just when the lee
turer reached the most thrilling part
of his Ten Nights in Barroom spiel
he caught Larry's eye, and the meet
ing adjourned, sine die, right there.
You couldn't see him for dust as he
broke for the nearest speak easy and
the two panhandlers were hanging on
to his coat tails.
Just then Merritt comes in, looking
worried, for he had gone to sleep and
let 'em get away from him, but when
he sees 'em he takes out his tin whistle
and goes back to the show, footing 1t
like a blasted Pied Piper, the snakes
following along as meek as Mary's
lamb and most of the audience goes
after EN-"
"Did business improve?" asked the
Stranger.
Improve? Why, my boy, after we
put that temperance show out Of busi-
ness we just turned 'em away for
three months. And the hotel people
put us on the free list at the bar, be-
cause Merritt used to take 'em down In
intermnable Snake formation for
dip in the ocean every morning, and
the hotel press agent wrote 1t up as
the daily appearance of the gigantic
sea serpent
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19

case of Perdicaris alive or Raisouli
dead with me, for the police were get
ting ugly and knew they might shoot
him.
I'VE drew lots to see who should go
down first, and l think that Mcdonald
stacked the cards, for Broncho won-or
lost-I was second, the other Barnum
man third and Mcdonald last; but he
made good after we got down there.
and it was what the president would
have called a crowded hour If Wal
lace hadn't been full of horse meat,
which made him little slow, 1 think
he would have chased the bunch of us
out, and as it was he gave us all we
wanted to do. We fired a whole ar
senal of blank cartridges at him and
fought him with the rods until we tired
out before he gave it UP and jumped
into his cage.
"Well, a load was lifted from my
mind, but nearly cried when we went
out to the saloon next door to freshen
up and the first thing I saw was that
poster with the announcement that
Wallace would be shown at the dime
museum, for knew that it would make
the reporters suspicious that it was all
a fake. The manager was afraid that
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19

oration and drying of the fruit is con-
cerned. For the hotel and restaurant
trade, as we'll as for the family eat
ing and cooking, the fact that there are
no seeds nor seed pockets is great
convenience.
In the green apples, from the time
they first appear an the trees until
they are one-half or two-thirds grown,
there may be occasionally found traces
of seed pocket. but by the time the
apples reach full maturity this SEM
blance of a seed pocket becomes alb
sorbed into the solid meat of the apple,
for, there being no seeds, nature elm
mates them of her own accord.
The present supply of seedless, core
less and wormless apples numbers
about 1000 trees and from these $4,000
more, 1t is anticipated, will be ready
for the market by the early fall of this
year, and the following year it is the
ambition of the growers to have at
least a quarter of million nursery
trees, from which the world will be
supplied.
Mr.. Spencer does not claim to be
the first who has produced a seedless
apple, but in justice to what he has
done let It be said that prior to his
work there never has been a seedless
apple of the slightest commercial
value.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19

and the sight of II was enough to make
a man swear off for year.
1--WE were doing a fine business until
temperance lecturer set up show
little way off, and that cut into us so
that there was nothing much doing.
The crowd would walk right past the
entrance to our Highly Moral and In
structive Exhibition, and go on to
listen to the temperance guy
tell 'em about the evils of drink, as
illustrated by the horrible living ex-
amples which he had upon his plat
form. You see, that was free show,
and ours cost a quarter-and cheap at
the price.
well, Merritt comes to me after I
had cracked my voice trying to draw
the crowd without landing any one,
and we looked at each other and shook
our heads in sorrow.
"Jim,' says he, that guy down
there's got you skinned to death on the
ballyhoo, and it's up to you to go over
and get next to the attraction and see
il we can't cop 1t out for our show
hate to ask 1t of you says he, Know
ing your views on the temperance
question, but business is business, and
this amt no time for sentiment
80 went down to the lecture, and
not being wise to the game, but
anxious not to miss a trick, L went
right up in front, and the first thing
knew L was on the mourners' BENCH
Just in front of the platform. L piped
the lecturer, as soon as he came on, for
a guy that used to pull teeth to brass
band accompaniment down on the Bow
cry, and say he could punish more
booze than any man I ever saw. But
he had the gift of CAB, all right, and
he had picked up couple or pan
handlers for horrible examples and
they made good in the part. They
looked as If they had been towed be-
hind a trolley car from the Battery
to Harlem, and If either one of them
had drawn a sober breath in twenty
years he ought to have sued his face
for libel.
well, the ex-jawcarpenter cut loose
III SOOu IOrill anu Ile Sooii hou S'Ni'
body worked up telling about what
alcohol did to your interior lining, and
giving a description of the menagerie
which a man sees in the jim-jams
which would have done credit to the
boss lecturer in there"
He pointed with his thumb to the
Arena and the alert waiter took it for
signal and refilled the glasses.
He sort of had me going, too" con-
tinued the Press Agent, after sampling
the freshly served drink, land 1 was
trying to decide whether should swear
off or increase my dose of bromide
when 1 saw one of the panhandlers
nudge the other one. He was staring
down the aisle and his eyes were stick
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19
Gern1any's Silent Soldier
THE old Emperor William used to
tell story against himself which

TN HE old Emperor WliiidIH ueeu ~
tell story against himself which
well serves to illustrate that
most gratuitous form of error, pro-
phecy." When the emperor was only
king of Prussia he saw one day among
his troops an untidy looking lieu
tenant "Who is that MANI" he asked
"An officer who has just left the
Danish service and joined the Prus-
slams" he was told. THAT man VIII
never get on in the army SAID the
monarch And he used to add in tell
ing the story: "That man was Moltke'
and my judgment of him gives you the
measure of my insight"
The great man was always unpre-
tending in looks and manner. AT one
time when he was staying at Ragatz
for the baths he took long walk ana
stopped at wayside inn for some re-
freshments. "Bather at Ragatz, aren I
you?" asked the landlord. "Yes," re-
piled the general "Moltke Is there
isn't he?" queried the host. How does
he look?" "Well, he looks much as you
or I do" And it was only by chance
that the landlord discovered his Vis-
itor's identity.
Moltke's taciturnity is a matter OF
history 1t is said that as the kings
Birthdays approached there used to be
bets among the army officers as to the
number of words Moltke would use In
proposing the toast of the day. Some
predicted a nine word speech ana
others insisted the number would be
eight. The sentence usually ran, ITO
the health of his majesty emperor and
king" or even "to his imperial ma
iesty's health
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19

tional view of the seedless apples
showing the coreless condition, while
the third engraving is a reproduction
of it's navel end. The navel end, IT
will be observed, is almost exactly like
the navel end of a seedless orange as
it was in its early beginnings, but now
the orange has almost entirely filled up
the former cavity or navel end, and 1t
is interesting to note that the Spencer
seedless apple is showing tendency
to do likewise.
These seedless apples grow as large
as the ordinary winter apple and con-
tain as much juice, while they mature
later than other apples grown in Colo
rado. The meat is very firm and hard
and they are extraordinarily long
keepers; in color the apples are red
when fully matured and have large
strawberry or yellow dots. The trees
have hard, smooth bark and stand
cold weather better than any variety
of apple trees grown around Grand
Junction, while they are prolific bear
ers.
Mr.. Spencer states that the farther
away he gets from the original propo-
sition-five trees-the larger and better
the fruit is in every way. The great
saving effected, since there is no part
wasted except the peeling, Is an item
of great Importance where the eyap-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19

seedless apples, though the fruit was
far below the standard set by western
growers. From these five trees he be-
gan budding and grating to see if the
trees would reproduce themselves, and
at the same time to improve the quail
ity of the fruit.
AS a result this grower now has in
his orchard trees that are four, six and
eight years old. and they all bear seed
less apples of a good color and fine
quality. 1t is true that occasionally
an apple is found that has a seed in
it. but the seed may be within an
eighth OF an inch from the peeling of
the apple and far removed from where
the core should be.
The seed that is thus found, seldom
enough, is produced by the pollen from
the common apple trees being carried
to the seedless trees either by bees or
by the wind, for it is impossible for
seedless apple trees to bear apples that
have seeds in them of their own ac-
cord.
There is no blossom at any time visi-
BILE at any time on the seedless apple
trees. There is a small quantity of
pollen and also a stamen, as on the
ordinary apple tree. but there is prob
ably not more than one-twentieth the
amount of pollen on the seedless buds
that there is on the common apple
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19
Napoleon at Forty-Six

Napoleon Bonaparte, when ne came
on board the Bellerophon on the 18TH
of July, 1915, wanted exactly one montn
of completing his 46th year. He was
then a remarkably strong, Weli-pulie
man, about feet inches high, ms
limbs particularly we'll FORMED, with a
fine ankle and very small TOOL, OF
which he seemed rather vain, as ne
always wore while on board the snip
silk stockings and shoes. His hanos
also were very small, and had tnS
plumpness of a woman's rather tnan
the robustness of mans. His eyes
light gray, teeth good and when ne
smiled the expression OF MS coulte-
nance was highly pleasing; when un-
der the influence of disappointment.
however. 1t assumed a dark, gloomy
cast His hair was of a very dark
brown, nearly approaching to black,
and though a little thin on top ana
front had not gray hair among II.
His complexion was very unconlInoii
one, being a light, sallow color, dii1er-
ent from almost any 'ther l ever met
with.
From his having become corpulent he
had lost much of his personal activity.
and, IL we are to give credit to those
who attended him, a very consloerapie
proportion of his mental energy was
gone also. 1t is certain his haplts
were very letharglc While ne was on
board the Bellerophon; for, though ne
went to bed between and o'clock IN
the evening and did not rise till about
the same hour in the morning, he fre-
quently fell asleep on the sofa In tne
cabin in the course of the day. his
general appearance was that OF man MAJ,
rather older than he then was. HIS
manners were extremely pleasing ana
affable. He Joined in every conversa-
tion. related numerous aneedotes, ana
endeavored in every way to promots
good humor.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19

"Just then Broncho stroled up; as
said, he was a halfbreed and a queer
looking guy. His skin was copper col
cred and his features always reminded
be of bird of prey. He had piercing
black eyes and long. fuzzy hair which
fell down on his shoulders. When L
told him what had happened he was
all Indian, and he drew knife and
started for the cockney, who gave one
look at the expression in Broncho's
eyes and touched only the high spots
until he reached Harlem. There had
been bad blood between them for some
time, but Broncho didn't chase him.
He came to me with smile of an in
infant on his face and suggested that
he should put Wallace back in his
cage.
Now that the damage had been done
l was in no hurry about it, as a great
crowd was gathering about the place
and there was plenty of excitement so
1 held him off until the police and re-
porters got there. They asked all sorts
up pretty we'll 1 let Broncho take his
training rod and go down, and l went
with him, carrying club and a pitch
fork. Wallace didn't wait for the call
of time, but sailed right into us, and
when 1 saw that he was getting the
better of Broncho, 1 made bluff at
passing back to the carcass of the
horse. Wallace bounded back to pro-
tect it, and that gave me time to help
Broncho up the stairs. He hadn't
enough of his trousers left to wad a
gun, and while was bandaging up
deep claw wound in his thigh that ad-
vertisement looked smaller and smaller
to me, and 1 would have given good
deal to have Wallace behind the bars
again. I was contracted for four weeks,
anyway, and it takes pretty big SEN
sation to be remembered for more than
thirty days.
well. we fused around all day
trying to figure out some way to get
the beggar back in the cage, and 1
got an earache listening to advice from
people who had never seen a lion. AT
sunset Wallace still held the fort and
the streets were blocked in all direc-
tions, for the afternoon papers were
out with scare heads. The boards
over the windows made the stable so
dark that no one could see into it, but
the roars and growls which came from
IL gave the spectators all the thrills
they were entitled to and caused a
stampede every few minutes. We tried
turning a stream of water on him from
the hydrant, but he only growled and
snapped at 1t, so we gave it up and
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19

I would renege on my contract after
all the free advertising, but he didn't
know me.
Sure enough, they came to me,
while I was still tired and dirty from
the fight and nearly worn out with loss
of sleep and anxiety, and accused me
of having put UP job on them. I
guess the sight of my condition con-
vinced them Of my sincerity, for only
one paper even limited at any funny
business, and that proved the best ad-
vertisement in the lot.
ut was the - which came out with
an article about Wallace, saying that
he was toothless and decrepit from old
age and that there had never been any
danger from him. l did my own an
nouncing in those days and l always
started off with Ladies and gentlemen:
II you see 1t in the - it's SO, and the
says that Wallace is played out
and toothless from old age Then I
would make a move to the front of
the cage and Wallace, who had spe-
cial hatred for me, would spring at the
bars and show as pretty a set Of fangs
as you could wish to see, and 1 was al
ways sure of laugh.
"Well 1 showed Wallace in New
York and other cities for thirty straight
weeks and got back the value of that
trotter a good many times over" con-
tinued the Proprietor as he rose to say
good night but the Press Agent. like
the Ancient Mariner, had tale to
unfold, and the Stranger needed no re-
straining hand on his garments to in
duce him to remain.
"Thats just like the boss" he COM
planned, watching his retreating figure
HE takes the center of the stage until
he has told his story, and when my
turn comes to get in the limelight ne
does the disappearing act. Now l can
tell you about an escape that was an
escape worth talking about. 1t hap
pened when a guy named Merritt ana
were running snake show next 10
camp meeting down on the Jersey
coast. We had bought lot of wig
glers on the Bowery, and Merritt made
himself up for Hindu faklr. he
would get in the cage with 'em and
play on a tin whistle and those snakes
would wrap around him from his head
t, his toes, and it was an awe inspiring
sight. But the great stunt was what
he called the Interminable Snake,
when one would grab the biggest ones
tail in his mouth, another would fasten
ON to him, and so on, until the whoie
blame lot looked like one serpent. say
those snakes got SO stuck on that game
that they would do it for sport
Whenever one started to move around
the cage another would grab his tall
and the first thing you knew the whole
bunch was going around in a string,