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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-05-09
BURNED TO DEATH.
Terrible Fate Of an Aged Lady, Who
fingered Four Hours

Bastrop Tex, May 9.-Mrs. J. f. OIL
i've. prominent aged lady OF this city.
was burned TO death. Her clothing ig-
nlted from a match while she was alone
at her home, her huA land being in the
yard.
She ran into the yard, where neigh
bors saw her. but before assistance ar
rived all the clothing had been burned
from her body, and IL was fearfully
burned. She fingered about four hours
before dying.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-05-09
CAUSED BY CHICKENS,
Clergyman Fined For Assaultinq His
Neighbor About Some Fowls.

Guthrie. May s.-Rev Nah b. Wick
and Indian Territory Children's Home
society, was fined IS and costs by
Judge o. l. Smith for disturbing the
peace n Sabbath. Wickham has been
bothered by the chickens belonging 10
w. II Minsheil Sunday morning
Minshell's chick ems again invaded
Wickham's garden and the latter. after
finding Minchell, IL 10 charged. pro-
ceedezi TO chastise him. Minsheu swore
out A warrant for Wjckham's arrest.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-05-09

body. IT cannot confer them upon eng
court nor can it take away the courts
power to interfere II the law II al
m.nisfered in any way that amounts
to conhscation OF property OF course
II would be impossible to come much
short Of such confscation and yet az
great damage. perhaps frreparabls
damage 70 the great corporations en-.
gagged 70 interstate commerce"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-05-09

Whtewright, Tex May 9.-Some
DAYS ago a horse belonging TO DR.. j. F.
Spindle seriously bit the physician on
wrist, badly decorating It. Monday
the animal died in commissions. de-
clared to be due to hydrophobia
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-05-09

st, Petersburg. MAY "a sensa-
tlonal rlmor Is current here that there
has been a three DAYS massacre OF
Jews AZ Zehitomir capital Of The pro-
vince of Volhyuia. In southwest Rus
STA II has not been confirmed
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-05-09
Bed Washout.

Mahank, Tex May 9.--An extensive
washout on the Texas and New Or
leans railroad at Lake Creek, three
miles north OF here. caused the delay
Of all trains about twelve hours.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-05-09
Trains Still lied up.

Tyler, Tex May 9.-~There were sim
no through trains on t. international
and Great Northern railroad Tuesday
morning on account Of the washouts
on The Sabine river and ~her points
between here and that place
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-05-09
Ou6CUT CAVES IN.
James Crow Instantly Killed and Wife
Critically Injured.

Grand, Okla. May s-James crow
was instantly killed and hts wife crit
ically injured. near Texmo. by the
tdge pole ot their dueout breaking
The failing earth crushed Crow. whose
body was not recovered for three
hours Six children. wha were alea ln
the -leaui escaped unlnjured
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-05-09
STORM DAMAGE.
Heavy Rains Do Much Injury to Crops
In Various Sections.

Dallas. May s.-Heavy and disas-
trous rains have fallen in several por-
tons of Texas Crops are badly dam
aged and much replanting will have to
be done. Streams are out of their
banks In numerous instances.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-08-04
THRIFT OF THE DUTCH.
Their Large Holdings of American and
Other Loans.

otnef Loans.
1.-The people of the Netherlands" says
Consul General Guenther, at Frank
fort, in a report, are thrifty and eco
nomical, excellent merchants, and. in
proportion to population. their nation is
n of the richest in the world. They
are cosmopolitan, and large minded in
the investment of their capital. They
We're the first and most extensive for
eign buyers of United States bonds OF
1876, but did not touch the confeder-
ate issues. According to estimates Of
official statistical and financial sources
Dutch capital to the amount of 1914
SOC, 900 is invested in American bonds
and shares and $500, OOO, 900 in Russian
bonds and shares.
YER large sums Of Dutch capital
are invested in Mexican government
bonds and in bonds n shares Of Mexi-
can railroad and industrial companies;
also in the government and railroad
bonds of Austria-Hungary, Portugal
and numerous other countries, and a
large amount is working probably in
the Dutch Indian colonies in sugar. to-
bacco and rubber plantations, the min
ing Of tin n other metals, petroleum
wells, etc. A financial book of refer
ence places the capital Of all Dutch
joint stock companies at s744. 1854. 600.
but this does not embrace the numer-
BUS Dutch companies which have their
headquarters in the colonies and in for
eign countries. The Netherlands, pos
sessing neither coal nor iron, is not a
manufacturing country of note, and in
this respect is ven surpassed by little
Switzerland, also having neither coal
nor iron. The Dutch are full of the
commercial spirit and have a large
marine. The rural Inhabitants
are given to d%airying, cattle raising and
horticulture. in which branches they
excel"
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self at all? Only towards commit SUR
eide. Il will kill him and let myself
be arrested. I shall be tried and shall
enjoy her sorrow and disgrace when she
Is called as a witness. / can eve nov
see her hide her face in shame when
The sympathy Of Judge, Jury n audi
ence will be on my side.
Here he was interrupted by the sales
man, who considered it his duty to en-
tertain his customer. 81
These monsieur, are new English
makes only just arrived; but again ]
assure you nothing equals the Amer
lean make. A few days g an office
bought one of these revolvers from ua
He shot at the lover Of his wife-and
what do you think, the bullet went
clean through him, struck a bronze
piano lamp. went through the piano.
killed a small spaniel and at last
and a great honor and advertisement
for u firm. The officer was arrested.
Of course, and will no doubt be sent to
Siberia! First, because we live un.
der ANTICIPATED laws; second, because
Judge and jury always sympathize with
the lover. Why? Tout supplement-
monsieur, because they are all lovers Of
other mems wives and feel safer when
there is one dangerous husband less In
Russia. Society OF today will be satis-
fed when the government will send all
husbands to Saghalien. The idea that q
man should keep a wife for himself
alone is really a%troc1ous, and these fooE
ish husbands will never learn to look a.,
things in that light until the law teach
es them to do so.'
The idea OF being sent to Saghalien
for the sake Of such a hog! And to
think hat wnen I was sent away she
would probably marry again nj de-
ceive a second husband. No; I will do
nothing Of the kind. I will not kill my
self; 1 will not Kill him, and not her.
I must find something which will pun
ish her more severely. I know til will
stamp her as the faithlesss wife. / will
begin suit for divorced"
III monsieur will look at this new
make Of a hammerless revolver, abso-
lutely safe to carry in your pocket
But Sigajeff a reached a point
when he did not need any revolver, and
felt rather embarrassed for having
Il Think he stammered, that I will.
come back later or send somebody,
and'-
"What is that?" he asked pointing
to a trap hanging OF h wall.
"A trap for Quails."
Just h thing l want. How much
is it?"
Eight roubies."
please wrap it up"
And the deceived husband paid his
eight roub!es and went home to his
wife. ~
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.%Evaporated cream."

st. Paul Dispatch: Gov. Deneen, as
soon as he gets that balky legislature
off his hands, should turn his attention
to his dairy and food department. and
investigate the commissioner. Recent
~ Commissioner Slater has been In
v~estigating some stun shipped in here
from Illinois, called evaporated cream.
nicely labeled and protesting to be bet
ter cream than dairymen give. He
found that 1t had, instead Of the 20
per cent. Of butter fat called for by
our law, only 8 per cent. And he de-
clared it illegal n fraudulent.
Then came n Jones, dairy and food
commissioner Of the state Of Illinois.
to see Commissioner Slater and see IL
something couldn't be done, some deal
made to let evaporated cream be sold
here. He told Mr.. Slater that he was
personally interested III two companies
that made this Cream at Highland.
Ill; that IL Mr.. Slater would lift the
ban they would put In a big plant in
his state. Asked how it came that
such stuff could be sold as cream in
Illinois he blandly admitted that some
illegal foods were permitted in his
state for political reasons. Needless. to
say he failed to convince Mr.. Slater.
We now put 1t up to Gov. Deneen to
pass Judgment IN his dairy commits
sioner who Is engaged in making a
fraudulent Cream"
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'woman's ways-in fact. enough to
make love to her and to carry her off
to 4 Christian church where a clergy
man was willing t. make them man
and wife after the anne of the pale
faces? For Black Hawk knew enough
to elope.
All his he did, and more.
Black Hawk first came to know the
great state of Pennsylvania several
years ago, when Uncle Sam took him
from the Nebraska prairies. Here near
Pender his father, the big Chief Black
Hawk, lives among his braves. Uncle
Sam brought Black Hawk to the In
dian school at Carlisle.
There he took Il white mans name
Albert p. Nash. He studied hard; he
worked in the shops and in the fields.
Iof the institution TO help pay for his
keep. Finally he was graduated. But
what he had learned there was not
enough for Black Hawk-Albert e.
Nash now.
And so he went to Philadelphias He
entered Drexel institute for a post
graduate course, working outside of
study and recitation hours for the
money TO keep him going. Then by
chance II day he met Miss Kenton,
student herself. and not at all pos
sessed With the thought of marrying
n one. much less q full-blooded In
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-08-04
DRAINING THE EVERGLADES.
Wonderfully Rich Section of Florida to
Be Made Productive,

success: There are great agricultural
possibilities in the Florida everglades.
Though they are yet merely an expan-
s1Ve waste of swamp n lake and jun
gle, I venture to predict that they will
be the location of hundreds of fertile
farms within ten years and will by de.
grees develop INTO one Of the most pro.
ductive tracts Of land in the world. The
barrier to h utilization Of the ever.
glades has been, of course, the water
which covers the greater part of them
to a depth Of from one to six feet. But
1t has been found entirely practicable
to drain off the water. Work to this
end has already been begun, and is be.
ing pushed rapidly. When it is COM
pleted a tract Of land 100 miles long and
sixty miles wide will have been opened
to cultivation. The size of this region
productivity of the soil. The latter is
not only absolutely virgin, but has been
fertilized by animal n vegetable life
through many centuries. / am conf
dent that its crops will lift Florida to
a place among the leading agricultural
states.
The project of draining the everglades
attracted the attention of Henry b.
Plant in the early 90s, but he was by no
means sure that the scheme was FEAST
BILE, so I, acting under his direction, I'M
dertook an expedition through the re-
gion. Despite its proximity to centers
of population, it was then for the first
time thoroughly explored by white men.
Ours was virtually a voyage of discov-
cry. We padded our light boats on
lakes n camped on islands that, I
have good reason to believe, had v
before been visited by any human be-
ings but Seminole Indians, and by these
but rarely. We underwent so many
hardships h a some Of our party were
compelled to turn back, but our eff
forts We're not in vain, for we ascer-
tanned the important fact that the ever
glades along the whole 100 miles of the
eastern side are trimmed by a rock
ledge. We furthermore learned that all
Of the lakes are several feet above sea
level, and we decided that there was
nothing whatever to prevent the water
OF the lakes from flowing into the ocean
and leaving the land drained II vents
could be made in this long ledge Of
G The chief question before US per-
tanned to h practicability OF cutting
through the ledge in various places and
dredging out outlets into the Atlantic,
which Is not more than two or three
miles away at numerous points.
Experiment proved hat this work
would present no great difficulties. 1t
was merely a matter of a great deal
Of digging. Henry M. Flagler o up
the nroject, and it is being carried out
by his ~lieutenants. We are not only
making artificial outlets through the
rock. but are also, by ditchinR and
into rivers and creeks which flow to the
ocean. The work has progressed far
enough to enable me to predict conf
IDENTIFY the opening in Florida within a
very few years Of a great tract of land
OF almost unprecedented fertility.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-08-04
Paul Jones' Commission?

To the Editor of Public Ledger: Fol-
lowing the interesting communication
of DR.. Griffin, in this mornings Public
Ledger. on the title subject, this docu-
ment. copied from the facsimile in
Smith & Watson's American Historical
and Literary Curiosities. Philadelphia.
1S47, No. 49,, will not be without inter-
est:
II do hereby certify that John paul
Jones was duly commissioned and APP
pointed to command the armed sloop
called the Providence, and that this
sloop is now employed in the service OF
the thirteen United States Of North
America. Witness my hand, October
29th, 1776. John Hancock, Pres'd."
At the time of the publication of the
above 1t was owned by Edward D..
Ingraham Of this city, whose valuable
collection was sold by NJ. Thomas &
Son in. 1855. Where ts 1t now?
Charles Henry Hart.
Philadelphia, Pa, June 6. 1906.
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trrom the Sioux City rripune.)

Pender, Neb., special: Prejudice and
poverty, creed and ~color--with a toss
3of his raven shock of hair, Black Hawk,
full-blooded Winnebago, has cast them
Rall to the four winds of heaven. He is
Albert T.. Nash now, and pretty Miss
Edna Theresa Kenton. a Philadelphia
p%aleface, is his bride-Mrs. Black
Hawk.
1 Not tina there weren't countless OBJ
.gstacles. Rut Black Hawk swept them
just as his ancestors swept aside
sstheir foes out in the prairie wilds years
aago. What mattered it to this son Of
Etle plains that he was red and swarthy,
that he was poe and a ward of the
Snation' What mattered it that he had
sfnuch to learn of the white mans
ways? Was it not sufficient for him
that he knew something OF the white
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-08-04
Literary Ball Game..

Chicago News: "Homer!' shouted tho
young man IN the grand stand, as the
player paused at third base.
Dear met exclaimed the young lady
who was seeing a ball game for the first
time. 81 didn't know that ball game
were 80 literary"
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Announcina . subscription,

Philadelphia Ledger: A Birmingham
warden was reading at a vestry
meeting a list Of subscriptions to the
parochial funds. The list began as fol-
lows: The vicar. o guinea; Mrs. -
half q guinea; an anonymous donor. my
self. twenty-five shillings."
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Rristlas.
ph,,,da,,hya o.

Philadelphia Press: "say!!" sneered
the bulldog, you don't know much
about scientific fighting, do you?"
Perhaps not" replied the porcu-
pine; III you want to try a little bout
with me, however, l think 1 can Five
you Q few points."
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Not Remarkable, but Queer,

Public Ledger: Yes said the gray
haired traveller. i've still got the frst
dollar / ever made
That's rather remarkable" replied
his new acquaintance.
Not at all. Since it was my first, Il
was Of course, very imperfect and very
hard to pass"
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Peace at Last.

Philadelphia Prem: .Naggit and I'M
wife were having n Of their Scustom-
Yes. but they've decided y "a
have another"
~'Indeed:"
Yes. they're applying for . d~tvorss..-
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dian from the prairie. however clever
sand good looking he might be.

fdIlu gUou OUKlf ne might be.
This didn't keep the girl from grow
ang interested in the handsome abor-
6gine. She introduced him to her
Friends and they liked him. too. But
their interest was wholly chronological
as Miss kenton's was, at first,
et least. AS a marriageable possibility
Black Hawk was eve considered for
e moment. Least Of all did Miss Ken
fon regard him as such. But that didn't
keep her from seeing the handsome
$oung red man every day and ome
fines more than once a day.
Drexel institute did all 1t could for
Black Hawk and he entered the great
Phillips academy at Andover. Macs. It
Vas then. and then only. that the red
ian and the pale face girl realized that
hey had been separated. He. wrote .
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-08-04
a Possihil;fv

Denver Republican: II presidential bus
iness keeps on accommodating at the presen
rate 1t may easily be that we shall have
to elect Roosevelt for another term In or
der to finish It up
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Fortuna IA lt.

Chicago News: Timkins-So that min
ing enterprise of yours proved a failure.
Ell?
simkins-Yes; a total failure.
Timkins-But I thought you said
there was a fortune In It.
Simkins-Well. mines In Il.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-08-04
How an Indian Won a White Bride

Black Hawk. of the Nebraska Reservation, Courted a Phila.
dolphin Girl of Excellent Family, Won Her Heart and Married
Her Secretly eight Months Later He Broke the New. and Was
Forgiven sHe Was a Distinguished Athlete of Drexel and Az.
pnrently q Credit to Tribe of Red Men. x p
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-08-04
Money

Money.
Philadelphia Record: Money can be
lost in more ways than won.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-08-04

The car IL lighted throughout by
electricity, even the signal lamps. or
emarkers," az they are technically
known. being electrically illuminated.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-07-28
LNoLIsH DOCTORS FrEs
They Are Regulated by the Roy.,c
1eg0 Of Physiciana.

They Are Regulated by the Rcya,c
1eGO of Physicians
The specialists must be divided /.
two distinct classes, the surgeon D,,
er and the pure physician. The tcn
unQuestionably gets big fees ii N
to his reputation. The famou,
geon has only to name his Zee b 4
millionaire with appendicitis. N.
the fear Of death before his eye
will write his check gladly. .Wh
he has recovered he win often ru
BILE If he does not boast. A youn'
and less known man win perform
same operation for a 1.-THE Of TIE 4
but the public, with death Sah
them In the face, viii have the n
with the big name, regardless Of
pense.
But the pure physician is an entr
different matter. Els fees are Bhl
ardized not by act Of Parliament
by that autocratic body. the Royal {
lege of Physicians. His fees fol .
sultation at his own house are q
at 2 guineas the first visit and
guinea for each subsequent one.
consultations away from home he
ceives a fee at the calculated rate
two-thirds Of a guinea a mile. Elsd
twelve miles out Of town, is ipso "a
8 guineas, Liverpool 2o1 miles, 4
guineas, and 30 on pro rata. Bu
must be remembered that noWad
all the big provincial centers
their own specialists, and the to
man is very seldom sent for unless
be one Of the very biggest names
the case desperate and rich.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-07-28
A Globe-Trottlng Teacher.

Miss Nina Boegli, a Swiss girl q
the distinction of having taught senq
In nearly every civilized country
the world, although she is barely
years Of age. She began teacnl
when she was IS, and a year later I
cided to take a trip around the wor
making her expenses by teaching
the lands through which she pass'
With $3.50 and a large stock Of plu
and courage as her capital,
started out and it has taken
eight years to accomplish her p
pose. During the entire tour Of !
world she never met with an accias
She was treated with courtesy eve
where, and had plenty Of pupils
each country where she chose to 81
She reports that she found Ausua
the most liberal in paying teachers
their services.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-07-28

as the great steam excavator shown in
the Illustration performs in eight
hours. The burning sun or rain in tor
rents has no terrors for this mammoth
earth-devouring monster. The scene
Is from photograph of the construc-
ton work on the irrigation canal in
Colusa County, California. The art-
ncial river thus created is six miles
long, 100 feet wide, and 80 feet to the
top Of its banks. The Sacramento riv-
IT furnishes the water which makes
fertile 10000 acres Of fruit ranches.
The excavator travels on its own
railway tracks on each side Of the
canal, and as the work proceeds the
track is taken up and relaid ahead
of the machine.
The steel buckets, which have shsrD
cutting edges, move constantly nv
means Of endless chains, and emntv
their load Of earth first on one Side
then on the other. Wide endless hal+s
carried on rollers carry the earth 70
the sides Of the ditch.
All these movements of the machine
are controlled by one leverman. who
may be seen in the cut standino ~
the platform on the left Of tho b,,o,.o4
He has control of five separate levers
one for raising and lowering the buclT
ct CHAIN one for moving the car to
the right and another for MOVING tho
car to the left, and another for movino,
It forward on the side track. and the
fifth controls the engine. The raniat
y and facility with which all these
movements are made is SURPRISING 81
pecially considering the momen+HT,
and immense weight Of the cor "n1
bridge and the excavators machinsrn
which is about 300 tons. y
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-07-28
CHAPTER XIV.

The Pamir, or Bam-i-Douniah, Is COM
monty called the Roof of the World. ="
From it radiate the mighty chains of the
THAN Shan, of the Kuen Lun, of the
Kara Korum. of the Himalaya, Of the
Hindoo Koosh. This geographic aystem,
four hundred kilometers across, which
remained for so many years an inSpassa-
BILE barrier, has been snrmOunted bg Rus
sian tenaeity The Slav race aud the
yellow race have come into contact.
The travellers of the Aryan people have
all attempted to explore the PLATEAU of
the Pamir. Without going baek to
Marco Polo in the thirteenth celtury,
what do we find2 The English with For
syth, Douglas, Biddulph, Younghusband.
and the celebrated Gordon, who died ON
the Upper Nile; the Russians with Fend-
chenko, Skobelef, Prjevalsky, Gnlmbt-
chexsky, General Pevitzoff, Prince Galit-
Yin, the brothers GFOun- Grjimailo:, the
French with Auvergne, Vonvalot, Capus.
Papin, Breteuil de Rims, Joseph Martin,
Grenard, Edouard Blanc; the Swedes
with Doctor Sven Hedin.
This roof Of the world, one would say.
Is lifted up in magic hand to let us see it's
mysteries. We know now that 1t CON
sists of an inextricable ENHANCEMENT of
valleys, the mean altitude of which ex-
ceeds three thousand meters; we know
that it is dominated by the peaks Of
GOuroundi and Kaufman, twenty-five