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found in southern Arizona, the home of the real wild horses. The Texas steer and several of his Ari- zona brothers will be here to defy the rope experts and the cowboy who is clever enough to rope and tie one of them quicker than his friends can, will scoop prize worth throwing a riata at.
 All the field day sports that can be crowded into one day, without crowding out all other sports, will be witnessed and prizes worth con- testing for will be used to tempt athletes into the arena.
 There will be music, singing and speechmaking and there will be
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pony races, man races and boy races. There will be a parade that will make a cercus turnout look like children's procession. There will be everything that will be necessary to fill up every five minute space from daylight till several hours after dark on the Fourth.
 Special attention is being given by the committees in charge to the preparations for the pyrotechnic display. A larger and more varied assortment of fireworks have been ordered for the celebration than
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cattlemen, and the barbecue would make Rome's ancient emperors turn in their graves and sigh to participate, could they but see the preparations. The war in the far east will be temporarily forgotten in the interest that will manifest in the tug of war being arranged for by the amusement committee.
 The soldiers from Fort Huachuca will be nere and the nine best ball players from that post will fight hard to pluck the eagle feathers from the hats of the members of the Diamond N team of Nogales.
 Alkali Ike, Montana Matt, Ari- zona Abe, Texas Tom and other famous broncho busters will ride the widest horses that can be
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sabe?n (Who knows) was the re. ply. No information concerning his captivity could be obtained from the Indian.
 The doctor then addressed him. self to the officer in charge of the squad, asking for the release of the man and informing the official that "Chapo," as he was called, was a good Indian. No amount of persuasion could induce the Mex jeans to spare the prisoner and upon further inquiry on the part of the American the Mexican officer told him the story of tbe crime for which "Chapo" and his four companions were to be shot.
 A few days previously Mexican rancher named Cunillo had been brutally murdered He was set upon by five Yaquis and thrown down. While four of the Indians knelt upon the prostrate man, each holding an arm or leg, the fifth cut open the mans breast, threw back the ribs, tore out the heart, and while the victim was still quivering in the throes of death, cut it open and laid it upon his face, over the eyes.
 The murderers admitted their crime and even volunteered the information that it made tuna buena mascara" a good mask).
 The doctor made no further plea for his mans life, being convinced that he was mistaken in hls state ment that "Chapo" was good Indian, and the man, with his four companions, was led out and shot
 This last raid has aroused the Mexicans more than past raids for the reason that they had begun to think the trouble with the In. dians was dying out. They are now preparing throughout the state of Sonora to push the fight against the Yaquis more stren- uously than heretofore and 1t looks very much as if there was to be a war of extermination. Unless the Indians soon lay down their arm; and sue for peace they are likely to be wiped out of existence.
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HE IS FLUFFiNc HIS FEATHERS AND
 WAITING FOR SlGEaL.
Will Give Vent to Scream of lifetime at Firing of Flrst Gun--Railroads Will Give Excursion Rates from Arizona ard Mexican Towns.

Never in the history of the southwest has the eagle screamed louder than he has promised to scream on the coming Fourth of July, in Nogales. He will scream in almost every town i'll Arizona, but nowhere louder nor more joy ously than here.
 The committees appointed to prepare for the grand old birds re- ception and entertainment worked with wonderful success during the past week. Not only did they gather up fat roll of money but there is more in sight and bunch of steers big enough to feed two towns full of people has been donated by patriotic
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BRAVE DEFENSE PUT UP BY MEXICAN
 RAMcnERS AGAINST INDIANS.
Three of Murderous Band Killed and One Mexican Killed and Another Dangerously Wounded--Detaila of Battle at Bueros Ayres Ranch.

Details of a desperate battle be- tween Yaqui Indians and Mexican ranchers, which occurred last Friday, reached Nogales this week. One Mexican was killed, one dan- gerously wounded. Three Indians were killed. The number of Ya- auis wounded is not known, as the Indians carried off their dead and wounded after the battle. The Mexicans were bar racaded in ranch house. The wheat field at the ranch, three miles long and two miles wide, was fired by the Indians and des- troyed.
 The Indians attacked the Buenos Ayres ranch, on the San Miguel river, in the Ures district, thirty miles east of Poza, Sonora, Mexico, shortly after snndown. At the ranch at the time were Jesus Ortondo, owner of the ranch, his brother, Francisco Ortondo, and Luis Caranza owner of an adjoin- ing ranch, with about a dozen laborers and the Ortondo family. It is not known how many Indians were in the band. About twenty advanced upon the house, but there  were many at distance.
 Caranza and Francisco Ortondc crawled through hole in the rool of the house and lying upon the roof where all the Indians were within their view, they directed the defense.
 The Indians surrounded tht house and kepta continuous fire fol time, sending bullets through windows and every place wher, they thought bullet could b, made to enter the house, but non, in the building were injured
 The besiegers finally turned thei guns on the two men on the roof but the latter, lying back from tn, edge of the roof, were we'll protected for time. When shooting, how ever, it was necessary for them t, expose themselves to a certain extent and Caranza was fnall' put out of the battle by a riff bullet which ploughed through hi body, entering his left side close t the abdomen and coming out a the back.
 When the Indians turned thei fire to the roof, the men inside tn building took advantage to tn temporary cessation in the rain c lead that had been pouring throug the windows and other openings and sent several volleys in rapi succession among the Indians The men on the roof saw seyera fall, and the Indians, breaking I confusion, retreated out of range C the rifles.
 How many Indians fell is nc known, but both men who were o the roof agree that three wer killed.
 After withdrawing out of reac
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was ever provided for similar event in years past. They will be fired from an eminence (of which nature has provided an abundance in this vicinity) !, that people hun- dred miles from Nogales may wit ness the spectacle.
 The following committees have charge of the preparations:
 Executive Committee: - Bracy
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There, everything was dry as tim der, and the fire burned like prairie fire, but the field was so far removed from the house that the fire did not inconvenience the defenders.
 Angel Acuna, one of the laborers at the ranch, was in the wheat field when the attack was com- menced and hid there. When the wheat was fired, evidently dread ing discovery by the Indians, Acufia, attempted to gain the shelter of the house, but was shot down, a rife bullet passing through his body close to the heart.
 There was but little shooting done after the murder of Acufla, the Indians gathering up their dead and wounded and leaving the vicinity.
 However, 1t was not till next morning that the defenders Of the ranch dared ventured out to re- cover the body of the murdered man.
 Soon after daylight two of the men rode to Poza and reported the attack.
 Under command of Joseph De- Witt an American, forty-hve mounted volunteers left Poza for the scene of bloodshed, from which place they took the trail of the Yaquis. DeWitt is a nephew of the famous General Dewitt of Boer war fame and served through the Boer war with his uncle. He left the United States at the outbreak of the Transvaal trouble, joined the Boer forces and after the war returned to America. Soon after bis return he went to the Ures dis trict, in Sonora, Mexico, where he still resides. He was an officer in the Boer army and is an exper' fenced campaigner. who can be depended upon to do good work should his little band of avengers encounter the Yaquis.
 Around the Buenos Ayres ranch after the battle just described were cartridges of every make and calibre and also number ol \ dynamite caps anu pieces of fuse were found, showing that some O \ the Indians in the party were
 miners and had come prepared t \ dynamite the ranch house haC N they been able 10 get close enough
 to 1t. The rifles of the men on tht
 roof and fear of the rifles in th'
 hands of the men inside kept thu
 Indians from getting close enougl
 to the house to blow 1t up.
 4 Dr. Frank ]. Toussaint of L'
 Chumata, about fifteen miles iron
 which place the battle occurred arrived in Nogales this morning 1 Dr. Toussaint attended Caranza
 the wounded Mexican, and says h believes the man will recover. s Dr. Toussaint tells an interest ing story in connection with tn execution of five Yaqui murderer in the Arizpe district One of tn , men who was shot was Yaqu who had worked for the doctor a La Chumata for three years. The Doctor was riding fror La Chumata to neighborin camp, when he met small detach
 ment of Mexican Hurdles with fv Indian prisoners. Among ther was the Yaqui who had worked fo } the doctor.
 He stopped and asked the In l dian why he was captive. "Quie
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The Penn's Grove record., 1905-06-16

The Schiller centenary serves to re-
mind one of the impressions of the
great man which George Eliot con-
Ceived after her visit to Weimar with
Lewes III the August of the year OF
the u%nion,'' 1854. She was thrilled
she says. by the legend over the poets
old house, "Hier wOhnte Schiller" but
something I'm the nature of d~isillusiOn-
ment awaited her within. 1t was very
interesting to see his study, left in its
original state. But when it came to his
skull, (which we saw for the first time.
we were amazed at the smallness O.
the intellectual region"
After that she could take no further
pleasure in the contemplation of the
too lattering bust and portrait. And
then "RHuch tom us that Schiller had
Il miserable Stirue'-a wretched fore
head Willie, to complete the destruc-
ton of her ideal, she heard how "Tieck,
the sculptor. was wont to declare that
something in SchiIler's whole person
reminded him ola camel.'-Pall Mall
Gazette.
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GAS AND WATER.
IS ONE AS NECESSARY AS THE
OTHER2
Citizens Of Large Cities Saw It Is,

New York, June 13.-In the recent
agitation here about the price of gas.
the demand for lower rates was srn-
ported by the argument that every resi-
dent is as dependent upon n SUNNY of
gas as upon a supply Of good water.
1t has come to pass that the day ID
borer uses gas as his only fuel for
cooking, because Of economy, and the
rich man uses gas ON account of its
convenience. Gas for lighting. with
modern improvements in burners. is
cheaper. better and more satisfactory
than any other kind of light. Gas
sells at $1.W per thousand cubic feet
in large cities, and from that to as high
as $500 in smaller towns.
The consumer Of gas in the country
uses Acetylene pronounced a-set-a-
lene), and each user makes his own gas
and Is independent of Gas and Electric
Companies. Acetylene is a more per-
feet illuminant than the gas sold by
the big gas companies in the cities, and
the cost to the smallest user is about
the equivalent of city gas at So cents
per thousand.
Acetylene is the modern artificial
light, the latest addition to the many
inventions that have become daily ne
cessities.
The light from an a~cetylene flame is
soft, steady and brilliant, and in quail
ity is only rivaled by the SUMS rays.
If water and a solid material known as
Calcium Carbide are brought into con
tact, the immediate result is the max
ing of this wonderful gas. The genera
ton of a~cetylene is so simple that ex-
perience or even apparatus is not neces-
sary to H4ke it. If it is desired to
make 1t for practical lighting, and to
keep it for immediate use, then a small
machine called an "Acetylene Genera
tor is employed. There are many re-
sponsible concerns making acetylene
generators. In practice this gas is dis
tributed in small pipes throughout
buildings. grounds or entire cities and
towns in the same manner as ordinary
city gas. Acetylene is the only salts
factory means of lighting isolated
buildings located in the country or
suburbs at a distance from city gas or
electric plants.
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Whit a Diplomat Is.

Referring to the recent banquet given
Mr.. ChOate by the bench of the Middle
Temple, the London Pail Mall Gazette
makes a pretty play with the word
"diplomatist," interpreting it as zone
with a double duty. and a double re-
sponsibility"-to his own country and
the country that receives him. The
evolution of "diplomatist'' from the
Greek verb of ito double" is very
curious. Diploma" a doubling, was
specialized as a folded paper, and par
ticularly, in Roman times, an official
passport or license. Thus diplomatic
science" down to the end of the eight
eenth century, meant the science of
manuscripts and documents, which ex-
plains a modern writer's strange re
mark that there is not a shadow of
diplomatic doubt thrown over the in
tegrity of the Third Gospel" DR.. Muir
rays Dictionary assigns the transla-
ton to the modern meaning to Leib-
nitZ's "Codex Juris Centrum Diplo-
maticus" documentary code OF inter
national law, and the title of q similar
French work. diplomatic came to be
considered as meaning international
documentary" and then the 'docu-
mentary" dropped out.
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Mr MARY Dimmick

Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass is fully quail,
fedto give helpful advice tosick women;
Read Mrs. Dimmick's letters.
Her first letter:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
81 have been a sufferer for the past eight
years with q trouble which first originated
from painful menstruation-the pains were
e~xcruciating, with inflammation and ulcera,
ton of the womb. The doctor says | must
have an operation or l cannot live. / do not
want to submit to an operation if / can posi-
bly, avoid it. Please help me."-MTs. Mary
Dimmick, Washington, ID. c..
Her second letter;
Dear Mrs. Pinkham -
"You will remember my condition when |
last wrote you, and that the doctor said /
must have an operation or l could not live.
l received your kind letter and followed your
advice very carefully and am now entirely
well. As my case was so serious 1t seems a
miracle that / am cured. l know that | owe
not only my health but my life TO Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and to your
advice. can walk miles without an ache or
a pain, and l wish every suffering woman
would read this letter and realize what you
can do for them.n-Mrs. Mary Dimmick, 59th
and East Capitol Streets, ashingtOn, D.. C..
How easy it was for Mrs. Dimmick to
write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass q,
and how little it cos her-a two-cent
stamp. Yet how valuable was the reply!
As Mrs. Dimmick says-it saved her life.
Mrs. Pinkham has on file thousands
of lust such letters as the above, and
offers ailing women helpful advice.
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MILLIONS LOST IN FLOODS
Western Territory Deluged---Great
Damage to Crops.
Rapid Rise In Mississippi River Forces
Water Through Levees and Covers
the Lowlands.

Chicago, Ill.-Millions Of dollars in
crop losses, the probable sacrifice of
several lives, the sweeping away of
miles of tracks and many bridges of
the Rock Island, Burlington and other
roads, were reported in the flood ter
ritory covered in the rapid rise of wa
tiers at Keokuk, Hannibal, Quincy and
other Mississippi River cities.
From KeOkuk came word that Riley
SmallwOOd, se~venty-tive years old, was
drowned in a flood that covered twenty
thousand acres of farm land in Mis-
souri,. Seven persons living near Alex
andria were ~unaccounted for after
making 4 flight for their lives from the
advancing deluge. The loss of crops in
Clark County, Mo-. alone is estimated
at a million dollars and the railroads
entering Keokuk are said 10 have lost
as much more.
The Wabash is the only line Mt Keo-
kuk that escaped damage. The flood,
which raised the waters of the Missis-
sippi eight and half feet in six hours,
swept away three miles of the Bur
lington tracks. TIE Rock Island
bridges were said to be gone as far
west as Eldon, Iowa.
Alarming reports came from Major
NJ. Meigs, Government Engineer, who
made a trip to the Lima Lake levee
on the Illinois side of the river. He said
water was sweeping through the levce,
although hundreds of men were work
ing day and night to strengthen the
weak places.
Farmers in the low lands fled for
their lives, taking as much property
with them as possible.
Captain Caperton, of the Government
lighthouse tender Lily, had an exciting
experience when the boat was caught
in a vortex and came near being
dragged to the bottom of the river.
He saved the lives of his wife and
daughter and the crew.
The river is five to eight miles wide
at Quincy, III. The gage the other
night was eighteen feet. Water was
breaking through the Indian Grave
levee just north of the town, and, as
there was scarcely a hope that the
banks would stand the strain.
The rise in the last twenty -four hours
Ut 6dIHlUdl, MO., WAS I'VE leel dlu Il
twenty-foot stage was predicted, which
is seven feet above the danger line.
All the lowlands were submerged,
railroad traffic was badly interrupted
and three bridges near Hannibal were
washed away.
The greatest damage around Bur
lington, Iowa, has been caused thus far
by the small streams swollen by rain
fall.
The Wisconsin River at Portage,
Wis, and Kilbourne was at the highest
stage known i'll many years. A hun
dred feet Of the Milwaukee road have
been swept away on the Madison &
Portage branch.
Part of the city levee at Bardens.
Wis, was washed out for a distance
of a hundred feet, and the entire low
lands in that vicinity were submerged.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-06-16
EdUpatiOn Rrnvii;oc

o. A. Molatch and W. NJ. Kelsey are
appointed assistants in chemistry at
Cornell.
The class Of 1904. college. Is to nre-
sent to the University of PENNSYLVANIA
a statue of Benjamin Franklin. the
founder.
The Modern Language Association
of America will hold its next annual
meeting at Haverford, December u,
30 and 30.
h appeal to the senior class 10 con
tinue the time-honored custom of wear
ing caps and gowns has met with 4
hearty response at Harvard.
Ground has been broken for the
Hall of Science and the new stadium
at Syracuse.
Hubbard Library of Bowdoin Col.
lege has received its share of The
Packard Library.
The register OF Jol- Hopkins IIni.
versity for the present year has nm.
peared in its final form.
The University of PENNSYLVANIA is
mailing preparations for assisting in
the celebration of the Franklin bjcen.
tennial in Philadelphia next year.
An addition is to be built on the wesi
end of the physical laboratory at the
University of Michigan for the accom-.
lnodation OF the electrical laboratory
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Railway Rate Legislation.

at the biennial convention Of the
Order of Railway Conductors, recently
held at Portland, Oregon, resolutions
were unanimously adopted rOicing
their sentiments as to tie effect of pro-
posed railway rate legislation on the
100000 railroad employees, whom they
in part represented. These resolutions
Endorse the attitude Of President
Roosevelt in condemning secret rebates
and other ~illegalities, and commend the
attitude of the heads of American rail
ways, who, with practical unanimity,
have Joined with the President on this
question" They then respectfully
point out to Congress the "inadviSabil-
ity of legislation vesting in the hands
Of a commission power over railway
rates, now lower by far iii the United
States than in any other country" he
cause such regulation would result IN
litigation and cOnfusiolf and inevitably
tend to an enforced reduction in rates,
irrespective of the question of the abil-
ity of the railroads to stand the reduc-
ton, especially in view Of the increased
cost of their supplies and materials"
They further prOteSteI against such
power being given to the present Inter
state Commission because 1.-THE pro-
posed legislation IS not in harmony
with our idea OF American juris-
prudence, inasmuch as It cOntemplates
that a single body shall have the right
to investigate, indict, try, condemn and
fhau on fopon &c 11nf-;o,,- NJ IL, ao-4
of the carriers, pending appeal, which
is manifestly inequitab.e."
The conductors base their demand
for only such legislation, if any as
would secure and insure justice and
equity and preserve equal rights to all
parties concerned on the ground that
the low cost of transportation lis the
result of the efficiency of American
railway management and operation
which have built up the country
through constant improvement and de-
velopment of territory. while at the
same time recognition has been given
to the value of intelligence among en-
plOyes i'll contrast to Foreign methods,
where high freight rates and lowest
wages to employees obtain"
In pressing their claim against legis-
latiOn adverse TO their interests. they
point out the fact that ''the freight
rates of this country average only two
per cent. of the cost of articles to the
consumer, thus making the freight rate
so Insignificant a factor in the selling
price that numerous standard articles
are sold at the same price in all parts
of the country"
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-06-16

Liberia exports about 5c,OOO,oOO gal
Ions of palm oil q year. MA
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-06-16

Some explanation for the confusion
in peoples minds as to the right defni-
ton of afternoon may be found in the
old confusion between noon and mid
day. Noon, of course, was originally
at 8 o'clock in the a~fternoon-if the
bull" be permitted-the hour when
the monks said their "Nones" or noon
song. The reason that it was put back
to II o'clock may lie in the fact that
the monks were not allowed to eat
their dinner until after they had said
Nones; for in time they anticipated the
service, and their dinner, by saying
Nones Immediately after the midday
service, and that is probably how mid
day came to be called noon. In the
old almanacs noon is generally marked
at midday and high noon as at 3.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
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Runaway Upset Babies.

Mount Nernon.-A horse attached to
a road wagon driven by L. L. Nord-
mann, of Wakefield, ran away at West
Mount Vernon, throwing Mr.. Nord-
mann out. 1t then upset two baby
carriages, splitting out the infants.
Next the horse knocked down a boy
and had smashed Il picket fence be-
fore it was captured.
The horse became unmanageable on
North High street when a bolt dropped
out of the shafts, causing them to
strike against its legs. 1t swerved to
the sidewalk in front CT the residence
OF Henry Eckert. The wagon crashed
into 4 lamppost, and Mr.. Nordmann
was thrown to the sidewalk.
In front of 4 fiathouse on South
High street was Minnie LampIs talk
ing care of Mildred Raymap, ten
months old, and the four-months-old
baby of James Fallon. The girl tried
to drag the carriages out Of the path of
the animal, but was not quick enough
One of the babies fell Oh Il pillow and
escaped with 4 cash in the head. The
other was more seriously injured.