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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-30

BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK.
(Ex- Governor Of Wisconsin, Former Ed
itor, Of ''Pecks SUM-" Author OF
Peck's Bad Boy" ETC., =.
Copyright. 1e05, by Joseph B. Bowles)
Gibraltar, in Spain and England
My Dear Foster Uncle: 1t seems good
to get somewhere that you can hear
the English language spoken by the
lrish and the English soldiers are
nearly all Irish. When you think of
the way the British government treats
the Irish, and then you look. on while
an orderly sergeant calls the roll of a
company, and find that nine out of ten
answer to Irish names, and only one
out of ten has the cockney accent, you
feel that the Irish ought to rule Eng
land, and an O'Rourke or an O'Shan-
messy should take the place of King
Edward. 1t makes boy who was
brought up in an Irish ward in Amer
lea feel like he was at home to mix
with British soldiers who come from
the old sod. -..
Dad says that there is never an
army anywhere in the world, except
the armies of Russia and Japan, that
the bravest men are not answering to
Irish names, and always on the ad-
vance in fight, or in the rear when
there is retreat. Dad says that
in our own army: and when the north and
south were fighting. the Irish boys
were the fellows who saved the day.
They wanted to fight nights and Sun
days, and never struck for an eight
hour day, or union wages. When the
fighting was over, and soldiers were
sick. or discouraged, and respondent,
an Irish soldier would come along,
maybe on crutches, or with a bullet in
his innards. and tell funny stories and
make the discouraged fellows laugh in
spite of themselves, and when another
fight was on, you had to tie the wound
ed Irish soldiers to their cots in the
hospital, or put them in Jail, to keep
them from forgetting their wounds
and going to the front for one more
fight. Dad says if there was an Irish
nation, with an army and navy, the
whole world would have to combine to
whip them, and yet the nation that
has the control of the Irish people
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-30

Lone S.ar state. has SO far failed to
back up with the rifles and bayonets
and cannons Of its militia. Border
towns in Alabama and Arkansas have
also met the refugees from Louisiana
with shotguns and turned them back
or imprisoned them in quarantine
camps. Even as far north as Tennes-
see and southern Illinois the quaran-
tine is, main tanned to a certain extent,
but in these latter districts i it is a
modified quarantine and without the
menacing adjunct Of shotguns or bayo
nets. Memphis, it may be recalled, has
as much reason as any city In the
world to impose a rigorous quarantine
in times Of danger from yellow fever,
as, with perhaps the exceptions OF New
Orleans and Philadelphia, no other city
IN the world has been scourged So
dreadfully or 50 nearly depOpulated
from yellow fever. as has Memphis. IN
the yellow Jack epidemics Of 4 gen
Grafton ago, when the people Of New
Orleans were dying like flies, the pop
llation of Memphis was being deci-
mated almost equally as fast But that
was before science had come to the
rescue by stepping to- the front and
showing that this greatest OF yellow
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-30

Blanchard of Louisiana Illuminated
against the coast patrol-boats put into
commission, with arms and ammuni-
4ion and sl1arp-shooting militiamen, by
4 Governor Vardaman Of Mississippi.
/, In specific terms Governor Blanchard
charged that the armed patrol boats
, of. the state Of Mississippi had "bot-
tied up"a number Of Louisiana fisher
!. men IN Lake Borgne, which is port
of New Orleans, and q body Of nav
igable water under the jurisdiction of
the United States government
you have no right to prohibit boats
from navigating lake, sound and gulf
channels which are navigable waters
s$of the United States" Numbered his
excellency Of Mississippi, and the
limit Of your powers is to prevent
boats from landing on Mississippi
shores. No such state of affairs can
be tolerated. ~
After this outburst It was thought
]. that blood would surely flow. But it
didn't Instead of sending . fleet Of
spatrol-boats to smash the cruising
crafts.of Mississippi in 4 brilliant naval
engagement that would dwarf the ex.
$ploits of q Dewey or a Togo. his ;ex-
4 ceHancy of Louisiana dictated q ring
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-30

stegomyia facfata., ingesting the blood
of the patient during this infectiye
period Is powerless to convey the dis.
ease to another person BY Its bite UNI
I'll about IL 4 days have elapsed, but
can do SO thereafter for an indefinite
period, probably during the remainder
Of Its life. ss= 2=. i. Y. =. @
S''3. The disease cannot be spread
IN any other way.~than by the bite Of
the previously infected stegomyia.
Articles used or soiled by patients do
not carry Infection Re- =.
These conclusions pointed SO clear
" to the practical method Of ex-
terminating the disease that they were
at once accepted by the sanitary au-
thorities in Cuba and put to the test
In Havana, where for nearly a century
and q half, by actual record, the dis
ease had never failed to appear an
nually. = - *.
Later Researches. -
Later researches by Guiteras in Ha-
lvana, by the public health and marine
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igan and Canada, than goes through
the Suez, and we don't howl about it
very much.
Well, sir, l have studied Gibraltar
in my geography, and read about it
in the papers, and seen its pictures in
advertisements, but never realized
what big thing it was. Now, who
ever thought of putting that enormous
rock right there on that prairie, but
God. l suppose the English, when they
saw that rock, thought the good Lord
had put 1t there for the English to
drill holes in, for guns, and when the
Lord was busy somewhere else the
English smouged the rock away from
Spain, by playing game with loaded
dice, and when England got it, that
country decided to arm it like train
robber, and hold up the other nations
of the earth.
When vessel passes that rock it
has to hold up it's hands and salute
the British flag, or get mess of hard
ware fired into its vital parts, but that
is all it amounts to, cause it couldn't
win any battle for England, and could
only sink trading vessels. The walls
OF the rock are perforated from top
to bottom, with holes big enough for
guns to squirt smoke and shells. but
If the enemy should stay away from
right in front of the holes, they might
shoot till doomsday, and never hit
anything but fishing smacks and ped
dlers Of oranges:
Gibraltar is like white elephant in
a geological garden. 1t just eats. and
keeps off flies with its short tail, and
visitors feed it peanuts, and wonder
what it was made for, and how much
hay it eats. Gibraltar is like a $40
gold piece that man carries in his
watch pocket for an emergency, which
he never intends to spend until he gets
in the highest place in his life. and
it wears out one pocket after another.
and some day drops through on the
sidewalk, and a tramp finds it and
goes on a bat and gets the worth of
his money, and has a good time. if he
saves enough to buy a bromo-seltzer
the next morning after. 1t is like the
Russian war. chest. that is never to
be opened as long as they can borrow
money.
If Gibraltar could be put on castors
and rolled around from one country
to another, England could whip all Eu-
rope and Asia. 1t would be a Trojan
horse on larger scale, and be ter
ror, but, say, if it got to America.
we wouldn't do a thing to it. We
would rim standpipe up the side. and
connect#ft with an oil pipe line, fill
Gibraltar's tunnels and avenues. and
magazines and barracks with crude oil,
and touch a match to it, and not an
Englishman would live to tell about it.
Gee, but I would be sorry for the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-30

Charles Finlay 81 Havana had ad-
vanced the theory that mosquito
conveyed the unknown cause 81 yellow
fever. but did not succeed In demon
strating the truth Of. his theory.
DIR. H. r. Carter Of the marine hos
.pital service had written paper show
Ing that although the period Of incu-
baton was only five days, yet q house
to which . patient was carried aid not
become Infected for from Is 4 to 20
days. .S* II ':ss. as
To Reeds mind this indicated that
the unknown infective agent has to
undergo period OF incubation Of
from 10 to Is days and probably In the
body of the biting insect. HI :..
Up to this time the. most generally
accepted theory as to the causation Of
yellow fever was that OF Sanarelli, who
claimed that the bacillus iceteroids dis
covered by him was the specific agent
of the disease Maj. Reed, In associa-
ton with DR.. Carroll, had, however, al
ready demonstrated that this bacillus
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-30

ing appeal to the federal government
at Washington to intervene and curb
the fiery Vardaman's naval operations.
Imbroglio on Land.
A clash between the land forces OF
the two states seems to have been more
probable than between the forces afloat
in gulf and bay. Violation Of the
sacred soil of Louisiana by invasion OF
Mississippi soldiers was the cause of
the imbroglio on land. Dunbar, a
small town on the Louisiana side of
| the state line, was the place invaded
| by the troops from Mississippi. 1t was
not claimed that the invaders came
with hostile intent and their real mis-
sion was known to be to get their
meals, as Dunbar was the only &C.
cessible place to get food in the coun-
try where the armed men of MISSISSIPPI
pi We're maintaining one of the quar-
antine camps. But the governor of
Louisiana had hardened MS heart
against the governor of Mississippi be-
cause of the latter's sensational pro-
nonuncement, in which the authori-
ties of New Orleans and all Louisiana
were charged with deception and mis-
representation in the alleged with
holding from the outside world Of the
Information that the yellow fever had
broken out in the Crescent City. So
, Gov. Blanchard ordered Gov. Vardaman
to keep his troops at his own side of
the state line; which in effect was de-
NAL to them of place to eat on
Louisiana's terra firma.
Because of the friction engendered
by the fierce controversy of the two
governors the travellers seeking to
break through the quarantine lines
! were held back at the lannon's mouth
and the point of bayonet. 1t was an
unusual state of affairs-a condition
unique in the history of the country.
When the New Orleans populace
realized that soldiers of the neighbour
ing state had invaded Louisiana with
arms and gunboats the indignation was
so intense and general that even the
pressing necessity of fighting the
spread of yellow fever by making war
upon mosquitoes was not permitted to
stand in the way of preparations for
measures of reprisals and retaliation,
A light-draft vessel was chartered for
the naval brigade of the states militia
and it was announced that this vessel
would be fitted out and armed with
howitzers and machine guns and would
start out to protect Louisiana citizens
from further aggressions. =
T. At Beaumont and Marshall. as well
as other points on the Texas border
and coast, the citizens have armed
themselves with shotguns to reinforce
the quarantine regulations that the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-30

Irish soldiers, but \guess they
wouldn't be there. cause they wouldn'.
fight America.
Well. if England ever has big war,
and she gets chesty about Gibraltar.
and says it is impregnable, and de-
fies the world to take it, bet you ten
dollars it could be taken in "A hours,
Il I was general, or an admiral,
would have about 40 tank steamers,
loaded with Kerosene, and have them
land. innocent like, right up beside
Gibraltar. ostensibly to sell. oil: for
perfumery to the natives, who would
all be improved by using Kerosene on
their persons. & Then would get on
barrel, on, deck of my flagship, and
command the English general to sur
render Internationally. and il he re-
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treats them worse than San Francisco
treats Cinnamon, makes them live on
potatoes, and allows landlords to take
away the potatoes if they are shy on
the rent,
Gee, dad looked over my shoulder.
and saw what had written, and he
fed me on the side of the head, and
said l was an incendiary, and that l
ought to have sense enough not to
write treason while a guest on Brit
ish soil.) Well, don't care a darn.
It makes me hot under the collar when
think of the brave Irish fellows, and
/ wonder why they don't come to
America in body and be aldermen
and policemen. When i get home l
am going to join the Fenians, and
raise thunder just as quick as am
old enough.
Well, sir, we have been through the
Suez canal, and for a great modern
piece of engineering it doesn't size
up with a sewer in Milwaukee, or 4
bayou In louisiana. 1t is Just dig
ing a railroad cut through the desert.
and letting in the water, and there
you are. The only question in it's
construction was plenty of dredging
machines, and place to pile the dirt
and water that just CAME in of it's own
accord, and stays there, and smells
like thunder, and you see the natives
look at it and keep away from the
banks, for fear the banks will cave in
on them, and give them bath before
thei; year is up, cause they don't
battle but once year, and when they
skip year nobody knows about it.
Our boat went right along, and got
out of the canal, because it was a
mail boat. but the most of the boats we
saw were tied up to the bank, waiting
for the millennium. We saw some Rus
sian boats waiting for the war to
blow over, and as We passed them
every Russian on board looked scared,
as though we were Japs, that were 60
ing to fire torpedo under them, or
throw 3 bomb on deck, and when our
boat got by the Russian boat the crew
was called to prayers, to thank the
Lord, or whoever it is that the Rus
slams thank, because they had escaped
dire peril. / guess the Russians are
all in, and that those who have not
gone to the front are shaking hands
with themselves, and waiting for the
dove Of peace to alight or their guns.
= The Suez canal probably pays, and
no wonder, cause they charge what
they please to boats that go through,
and if they don't pay, all they have
to do Is to stay out, and 60 around a
eew thousand miles. It is like a
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-30
INCIDENT OF A SEA FIGHT.
Captain of Chinese Warship Drowned
by His Dog, Ferocious
Brute.

This strange incident of 4 great
naval battle is told by Commander
McGifhn of one of the Chinese war
ships in the battle of the Yalu. between
the Chinese and Jalanese fleets in 1891,
saysthe Chicago Daily News. About this
time the Chin Yuen boldly, if some
what foolhardily, bore down On the
Japanese squadron's line. Just what
happened no one seems to know. but
apparently she was struck below the
water line by heavy shell-either a
ten-inch or a 13-inch. Be that as it
may, she took heavy list, and thus
fatally injured, her commander. Tang
Shi Chen, a most courageous. albeit a
most obstinate officer. resolved at least
to avenge himself and charged one OF
the largest of the enemy's ships, in
tending to ram.
"A hurricane of>projectiles from both
heavy and machine guns swept down
upon his ship. The list became more
pronounced, and just before getting
home to his intended victim his ship
rolled over and then plunged, bows
first into the depths. She righted her
self as she sunk, her screws whirlins
in the air, and carrying down all hands,
including her chief engineer, Mr.. Pur-
Wis, shut up in the engine room. Seven
of her crew chung t. one of the circu-
lar life buoys kept on the bridge and
were drifted by the tide toward the
coast, where they were rescued by
junk.
Stories told by these men vary so
much as to be unreliable. but all agree
on one incident: Capt. Tang had a
large dog of most vicious temper I'M
ruly at times even with his master.
After the ship sunk, Capt. Tang. who
could not swim, managed to set al car
or some small piece Of wood. This
would have been enough to support
him had not his dog swun: to him,
and, climbing ON him, forced him to RS
lease his grasp. Thus he miseraoly
drowned and the brute shared his
fate-perhaps the only case on record
OF man being drowned by his dog"
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fused, 1 would sci. q slow match OF,
every oil vessel, and have the crews
get In skins and pull for the opposite
shore, and when the OIL got on fire
and rolled up all over Gibraltar. and
burned every living j., thing, would
throw water from the fire department
boat on the rock, and she would split
open and roll all over the prairie, and
then would bury the cremated dead
out on the desert, and seek other
worlds to conquer, like Alexander the
Great. But don't be afraid. 1 won't
do it unless they make me mad, but
you watch my smoke if they peck on
your little Hennery too much, when he
grows up.
But haven't any kick coming about
Gibraltar, cause they treated dad and
l all right, and the commander detailed
an ensign to show us all through the
fortress. Now don't get an ensign
mixed up with unique, such as showed
us through the Turkish harem. An
English ensign is just as different
from a Turkish unique as you can
Imagine. Every man to his place
You couldn't teach a Turkish unique
how to show visitors around an Eng
fish fortress, and an English ensign in
a Turkish harem would bring on a
worlds war, they are so different.
Well, we went through tunnels in the
rock. and UP and down elevators, and
all was light as day from electric lights.
and we saw ammunition enough to
sink all the ships in the world. il il
could be exploded in the right place.
and they have provisions enough
stored in the holes in the rock to keep
an army for 40 years, if they didn't ge.
ptomaine poison from eating canned
stuff.
1t was all revelation to dad. and
when we got all through. and got out
into the sunlight, we breathed free. and
when dad got his second wind he broke
up the English officers by taking out a
pencil and piece of paper, and aske:,
them what they would take for the
rock and its contents, and move out ana
let the American flag float over it.
Well, say, they were hot, and they
told dad to go plum to. but dad wouldn';
do it. He said America didn't want
the old stone quarry, anyway, and il
it did, it could come and take it.
guess they would have had dad arrested
for treason. only when We got out into
the town there was the whole British
Atlantic squadron lined up, with men
up in the rigging like monkeys, and
every vessel was firing a salute, as &
yacht came steaming by.
Dad thought war had surely broke
out, or that some rich American owned
the yacht. but it turned out to De Queen
Alexandria and party Of tourists. and
when the bank played God Save the
Queen dad got up on his hind legs
and sang SO loud you would think he
would split hisself. and fellow went
up and threw his arms around dad, and
began to weep, and the tears came into
dads eyes. and another fellow pincheG
dads watch, and the celebration closed
with everybody getting drunk, and
the queen sailed away.
Say, We are going to Spain on the
next boat, and you watch the papers.
We will probably be hung for taking
Cuba and the Philippines. Yours.
HENNERY.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-30
THRILLING PHASES OF THE BATTLE
BEING WAGED IN THE STRICKEN
DISTRICTS OF LOUISIANA
A CLASH OF ARMED FORCES IS THREATENED
Exciting Incidents in Which the Governors of Two
States Fisured-Federal Government in CHARGE
DIRECTING Scientific War on the Disease
and the Mosquito.

New Orleans, lathe shotgun quar-
antine which has prevailed in the
southern states bordering ON the fever
stricken districts of Louisiana has
been one of the exciting and spectacu-
lar features of the outbreak Of the
scourge this year. Refugees from New
Orleans and the other Louisiana towns
in which the yellow fever has appeared
have been hemmed in with gatling
guns and muskets in the detention
camps along the coast or near the
state lines of Mississippi. Texas and
Alabama. Great railroad and steam
ship transportation lines, extending
around half a continent. have been
shut down" so far as New Orleans
and all Louisiana are concerned. Pas
senger traffic is paralyzed, and even the
freight traffic is affected.
IN the railroad stations just across
the Louisiana line in Mississippi and
Texas-but most rigidly in Mississippi
all travellers through Louisiana are
placed unfortunately in the ''refu-
gee class. They are herded for hours
der stations" or in so-called camps
to which they are removed by force.
Once In detention camp which is
seldom a particularly sanitary place,
there is little Or no chance for the de-
tanned traveller to gain his freedom
Nntil the end of the customary term
OF five days quarantine. Only then is
he allowed to go his way, and all that
he gets for his loss of time and the en-.
durance of the horrors of the detention
camp is health certificate of doubtful
value in the next state he enters
In the enforcement of the quarantine
there have been numerous clashes of
authority, and clashes of arms were
Imminent on several occasions. Armed
forces of Mississippi and Louisiana
confronted each other during the early
stages of the outbreak on land and
water. Menace of an Interstate war
was prevalent and hostilities might
have begun on grand scale at any
moment. Intervention of the marine
forces of the United States was looked
to and invited as the only means Of
preventing bloodshed.
Governors in Wordy War.
Spectacular berating of each other
by the governor of Mississippi and the
governor of Louisiana preceded the ar
raging Of the two states armed forces
in positions mutually hostile. Invasion
of Louisiana territory by land and
water was charged by the Louisiana
governor against the militia forces of
mississippi.
Usurpation of authority over, nayiga-
bic waters of the United States was
another Of the charges that Governor
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ferry across q little stream out west,
where there is no other way to cross,
except to wade or 80 around, and the
old ferryman sizes up the wagon load
that wants to cross, and takes all they
have got loose, and then the travellers are
ahead Of the game. cause ii they
didn't cross the stream they would
have to camp on the bank until the
stream dried up. Some day an earth
quake will split that desert wide open,
and the water in the Suez canal will
soak into the sand and the steam
boats will lay in the mud, and be COW
cred with a sandstorm, and future
ages will be discovering full-rigged
ships down deep on the desert. Dad says
we better sell our stock in the canal
and buy airship stock. And talk about
business, there is more tonnage goes
through the 500 canal, between Mich
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-30
Crows Gold and Silver Nest.

A pair Of crows have constructed a
nest out of gold and silver spectacle
frames purloined from the factory Of
Messrs.. Lawrence and Mayo, in Bonn
bay. The materials for this nest Cot
which the value is about $500 were
stolen by the willy crows during the
luncheon hour. 1t was noticed that
the spectacle frames were disappear
ing from the factory in a mysterious
manner. but it was some time before
the thief was Observation-Disclosures
Pioneer.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-30
Too Early In the Game.

Z. He"'i;tt---G!d you hear that Gruet
naked over tae marriage service? ?
u Jewctt-Ec. 4 IS %.-.:.. $ &
Icwitt-lNhea the minister came to
The with Al; my worldly good; thee
cE.'ow" par., GGruet. asked him why it
was necessary for him 20 Pill: his prop
cr,y in his w:fe's name so carly In the
.;anc.-N. y. Sum- ": - =. g. :
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-30
Jackstones in Greece.

According to ancient writer's, the
simple game of jackstones was played
in Greece with the knucklebones Of
sheep. Aristophanes (444-SSS B. CO.
described it as girls game. 1t is
popular in all parts of the world.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-30
Ready to FALL n Love.

Nercy-I should never marry a man
I did not love. ...5
. Maudc----But suppose q :cai=w ealthy
man should propose Z !! .5..ss5=1 IL.
ss..'I should love him, ott curse - -
En-. Mail. 81.