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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-10-08

listened shamefacedly. to three-minute
speech that made them squirm, and as he
finished talking the deep voice of Buck
Peters endorsed the promises Just made, for
the foreman had entered the gallery I'M
noticed. The joke had come to an end.
When Johnny rode in, he was surprised
to find Hopalong waiting for him near the
corral and he replied to his friends gesture
by riding over to him. "What's up?" he
asked.
Come along with mel want to talk to
you for few minutes" and Hopalong led
the way towards the open, followed by
Johnny, who was more or less suspicious.
Finally, Hopalong stopped, turned and
looked his companion squarely in the eyes:
kid, I'm in dead earnest. This amt no
fool joke-tell me what you saw that night,
what tn ghost looked like, how he acted, an
all about it. l mean it, because I'm dead
shore you did see something"
give told you dozen times retorted
Johnny, his face flushing, can I amt going
eyes, you are. Yo're going to tell it
slow, an just as you saw it." Hopalong
interrupted. "Look here! I've done
heap of thinking in the last two months, and
l know that you saw ghost, or something
that was made to look like one. There's
some kind of game on, Kid-we'll bust it
up, an you can get tn laugh on tn whole
crowd"
Johnny's suspicious left him with rush,
for his old Hoppy was one man in a thou
sand, and when he spoke like that, with
such sharp decision, Johnny knew what it
IL,
tale and when the short account was fin
ished he put out his hand and smiled:
"We've all been fools, 'cept you. There's
something crooked going on in that canon:
but you keep num-"
1t appeared that he was right, for several
days later Buck Peters drew rein and
waited for stranger to approach him.
! "Howdy9 Is yore name Peters?' asked
the stranger, sizing up the foreman in one
!. trained glance.
e. "Who are you, an what do you want?"
asked Buck.
II want to see Peters, Buck Peters,
That yore name?"
eyes; what of it?"
"My names Fox. Old Jim Lane, down
at 'Paso, gave me message for you," and
the stranger spoke earnestly for some mo-
ments: "There, that S tn situation. We've
got to have shrewd men that they don
know. Lane wants to pay a couple of yore
men their wages for a month or so. He
said he'd bet on you"
"Hes right; he can. 7 don't forget
favors. I've got a couple of-there's one
now. Hey Hoppy! Whoop-e-e, Hoppy!'
Mr.. Cassidy arrived quickly, listened
eagerly, named Red and Johnny to accom-
pany him, overruled his companions by in
asisting Johnny should 60, and wheeled and
galloped off to find the lucky two, his eyes
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-10-08

They got shooting singing the Flying Ghost

danced above their heads, while the shrek
ing which had so frightened Johnny and his
horse. filled the canon with uproar and
sent Martin wriggling nearer to the crevice
he was guarding. The noise soon ceased,
but the ghost danced on, and the sound of
men toiling and stumbling along the rocky
edge of the stream became more and more
distinct. Four were in the party and they
all carried heavy and bulky loads on their
backs, and grunted with relief and pleasure
as they entered the opening one by one.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-10-08

one whit more sensitive than those which
had sent Juan Alvarez to look over the San
Miguel-and Lanes wires were slow this
time. When Juan had seen Manuel slip
away from the group the night before and
ride off into the north he knew that the
ghost would show itself Friday night
But Juan was to be disappointed. He
was still some distance from the canon
when snarling bulk landed on the launches
of his horse. He jerked loose his gun, fired
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-10-08

Red, tired of swearing. can he might
easily be week. he added, thoughtfully.
can what lovely cock-an'-bull story
he'll have to explain it" growled Hopalong,
reminiscently. ellis excuses are allus tn
worst part of it,
"Does he make excuses" asked Dent,
surprised.
"He does to u.s." Red retorted, savagely.
There was sudden uproar outside, fluent
cussing, and the door opened with bang,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-10-08

glowing with anticipation and Joy. Fox
laughed, thanked the foreman and rode on
his way north for bluff; and through the
darkness that night three punchers rode
south, all strangely elated. They got drunk
one night a little later and went shooting
and singing to the big bend in the canon
to see the Flying Ghost.
III
Juan Alvarez had not been in San Felipe
since Dick Martin left, which was for
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-10-08

lex MARTIN slowly
turned, leaned his back
against the bar and
languidly regarded a
group of Mexicans at
the other end of the.
room. Singly, or in
roroh;r a<;one of <u,o ~
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1910-09-23

tnls book. How gloomy the out,ooL w.s 10 cot
lol.n sraphlcally in confidential letter from
ueh Martinez Campos to Canoyas del Castillo
prime minister of SPAIN
Although from the very first I
ieahzed the gravity of the situation refused to
oeheVe 1t; my visits In Cuba Principe and Hol.
gin appalled, me; however, in order not To annear
po9'nis.ic' aid not express all my thoughts, and
decided TO visit not only the maritime communi-
Ties, but the towns in the interior The few Snan
lards who live in the island do not dare to men,
'ion thelr origin except in the cities. The rest
Vi the population hates Spain Wherever you pass
farm and ask the women where their husbands
are, they answer with terrifying frankness: In
the mountains with Chief So and So
You could not get anyone to carry message
iof QUO nor 1000 pesetas; he would be hanged If
he were ever caught.
The rebels who charged Weyler with wanton
cruelty seldom restrained themselves from accom-
plishing deeds Of violence likely to terrorsze the
lew remaining supporters of the Spanish rule To
quote Weyler:
me insurgents did not return in any way the
considerable treatment accorded to them by this
generous commander (dartinez Campos) At the
beginning of the war Maxine Gomez showed him
self very fair; but Maceo, l shall prove by au-
thentic documents, ordered his bands to set fire
TO all the sugar mills whose owners were not pay
ing war tribute, to plumber and loot the country
to shoot mercessly all the messengers men
caught repairing railroad lines or bringing pro-
gent chiefs did not hesitate to kill with their own
weapons defenseless islanders, and Maxine Co.
mez in his Memories confesses to having shot
personally man he had sentenced to death, a
deed which l call willful murder And still that
individual presumes to call me assassin"
AS his authority for the foregoing statement
General Weyler not only quotes extracts from the
Cuban papers. but appends proclamation of
Maceo, Gomez's lieutenant, to his bands.
Comrades in Arms: Destroy, destroy every
thing. day and night; to blow up bridges, to derail
trains, to burn up villages and sugar mills, to
annihilate Cuba is the only way to defeat our enc
mics. We have not to account for our conduct
to anyone. Diplomacy, public opinion and history
don't matter. 1t would be sheer insanity to seek
the laurels of the battlefield. to bear the fire of
the enemy's artillery and contribute to the glory
of the Spanish commanders. The essential thing
is to convince Spain that Cuba will be but heap
of ruins. What compensation will she receive
then for the sacrifice entailed by the campaign!
We must burn and raze everything. It would be
folly to fight as though we were European
army. Where rifles Of no avail let dynamite
do the work. A. MACEO."
fs The only way to subdue such bloodthirsty, des-
perate pirates to adopt their own tactics. The
insurgents, of their own admission never gave
accepted battle. but harassed the regulars and
destroyed their sources CT supply. "Concentra
ton seemed to b. the only solution of the prob
lem. for the wives and children OF the insurgents
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families whose not serving IN the ranks
of the regular army. Refused army rations' COM
PEELED to from devastated village TO
a burnt down hamlet, they could not but succumD
to hunger and exhaustion.
Had Weyler been less brutality honest. he
would have omitted such damaging admission.
Up to this day we have had books of many
kinds dealing with the Cuban war; pamphlets
put forth by the insurgents and VIGOROUSLY unfair
to Spain; Spanish publications which msrepre-
sented grossly the attitude of the United States;
articles in European newspapers almost unani-
mously censuring the Americans for ''robbing"
Spain Of her colony.
Now however, we have the facts presented
almost without any comments and certainly with
out establishment by a Spaniard who loves his
country and frankly detests the Americans
Once or twice he registers protest against
the senates decision concerning the recognition
OF belligenercy or the campaign of defamation
directed against him in American papers.
He complains that in March, 1896, when he
had the situation well under control, the senate
of the United States interfered most unfairly for
1t recognized the belligerency of the insurgents
thereby giving them new courage
This is less convincing than the majority OF
his arguments for II we compare dates we find
letters in which he admits his failure to stop the
progress of the insurrection.
HIS gravest charge against the United States
is contained in the following paragraph, which
is too vague to be taken seriously as some
other statements of HIS
THE United States were against everything
that would bring about termination of the war
American citizens held several millions worth of
Cuban bonds, issued with the provision that the
island would pass under the domination of the
United States ten years after Cuba would have
separated herself from Spain. The Yankees saw
that with the pace set the much-longed-for indie
pendence OF Cuba and its coroary, the annexa-
ton thereof was becoming more and more re-
mote possibility. But there was no reason why
the peninsula should have robbed all the gossip
which originated in America"
But on the whole the picture his letters and
reports. as well as the letters Of Martinez Cam
pos he publishes, present to our eyes Of Cuba In
the years preceding the Maine incident would
have justified any nation, near or remote In inter-
venng for the sake of humanity; population
unanimous in its desire for independence:
bloody war which could only lead to an ephem
eral peace and at best would have left the island
dreary waste for years to come; the rights of
foreign land owners and investors trampled un-
der foot: all this horror had to be stopped
Spain did not lose Cuba as a consequences Ct
the war with the United States; by the yer, ac-
mission OF SPANS military representatives in that
Inflated colony, Cuba was irretreyably lost to
Spain In 1897 and the few Spaniards residi,.y In
the coast towns. the only safe abode for them
felt themselves despised. ostracised minority.
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b e S l d e S what
the minister.of
war had told
me and what l
had read in the
p a p ers or in
anonymous let
tiers sent by
Spaniards living
IN Cuba, and /
thought that all
OF them exag-
& "a t e d t h e
facts; I had no
knowledge of
the secret docu-
ments / have
a p p e n d e d to
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which seems quite
sufficient under the
circumstances. A
few paragraphs.
however, couched In
his blunt, soldierly
style, set t | n g at
naught the terrible
charges preferred
against him in con.
nection with that
stern system of war.
fare would h a v Q
been interesting,
but they were lack
~ -
ing. His silence
amounts to a confes-
sion of guilt. He
makes a weak at
tempt at explaining
that the wives and
children of insur'
gents were not "con.
centrated," b u t
obliged to betake
themselves W h e r g
the head of the fam
lily was supposed to
be found. This is
worse. yet, f. one
can conceive the ap.
palling abuses which
such an order ema'
mating from the gen
eral in chief must
have countenanced
and justified. AS the
revolutionary bands
were con S t a n t l y
moving from east to
west and from west
to east and could
not be located with
any certainty, what
an existence must
have been that OF
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Aoi DuICueTlIlS MS
enemies instead of
fighting them; and
he f1aunts in our
faces the ugly stains
that show where he
wiped off his knife.
Captain General
of the most fertile
province of Spain
(and a province
which more than
once manifested her
Intention to throw
off the B b on
yoke). he makes
such q case against
the country that
buys his services as
no citizen of the
United States could
have ever made TO
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which he attempts to defend his
conduct while the representative of
he Spanish crown on that island.
MI MANDO EN- CUBA
lMy Command in Cuba)
IN letters of CORY scarlet on a pa.
per of liyid gray.
Whatever the motive may have
oeen that prompted such a choice,
that bloody EYE catcher" of a line
dtly symbolizes the man and the
work which caused SO many years
or dlscontent in Cuba. Weyler has
been on trial before public opinion
for butchering his
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[TH an objectionable
lack of tact or a grew
some attempt at u
sinister piece of hui
NOR, Gen. Valeriane
Weyler, the former
Spanish captain gen.
eral of Cuba, who
gained for himself
the unenviable title
of butcher" has al
lowed the publishers
to print the title of
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
english AUTHOR
PRAISES new CITY
Words of Encominm by j. Ellis
Barker About San Fran
cisco's Restoration

The Municipal Record this week
prints the following statement from
J. Ellis Parker. the eminent English
author, about the new San Franciseo'
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
fulton CARS ARE
RUNNING TO BEACH
New Line Opens Attractive Sec
tion in Western Part of
Richmond District

The running of the electric cars
along Fulton street to the beach marks
an important event in the history of
Richmond district. Since the beginning
Of the week the McAllister street ex-
tension line from Twelfth avenue along
Fulton street to Forty-ninth avenue
has been in working order and ears are
now running on schedule time. IL WILL
however, be another few months before
the new McAllister street cars VIII
beach without transferring at Fulton
street and Twelfth avenue.
The big Fulton street sewer. which
was constructed by the city at a cost
of $4,000. is completed, and the con-
tractors are at work macadamizing
Fulton street TO the beach.
For the last year or so more street
work and improvements have taken
place north of Golden Gate park than
in any other part OF the city. To most
San Francisco people the district lying
directly north of Golden Gate park be-
tween Fulton street and Geary street,
from Thirty fifth avenue to Forty ninth
avenue, will be a revelation. for its ele-
vation. sunny slope and marvellous view
aTb attractive
Lipman & Hirsehler have opened
their beach ofice at the terminus of
the new Fulton street line at the cor
ner Of Fulton street and Forty-ninth
avenue They report an active demand
for lots throughout this section. and
particularly In the new blocks they,
have put on the market north of the
park, lying between Fortieth and
Forty-frst avenues, Anza and Balboa
streets, and in the Chain of Lakes block
lying between Forty-first and Forty
second avenues, Balboa and CahrilIo
streets
These blocks have been improved and
graded to Official line; streets have
been macadamized. severed, water and
gas mains supplied and the property
made ready for the builder. A uniform
building line has been esta blished.
which makes this property specially de-
sirable for home purposes.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
FEVER BUILDING
LOANS BY BANKS
Most of the Large Mortgages
Recorded During the Week
Were for Renewals

There has been quite falling off
week.
The principal building loan of the
week was for $4,000 to the archbishop
Of San Francisco by the Hibernia bank
for the purpose of erecting a convent
for the nuns at the northeast corner
of Sixteenth and Dolores streets.
The s12,50o loan by the Mutual saw
ings bank to Mary W. Busteed was for
building three frame fats in the north
line of California street, so feet west
of Leavenworth.
s4.500 to Charles ". DohI to build fats
in Eighth avenue. 70 feet south of
Lake street. on lot 25x95 feet.
The s4100 loan made by the Ger
man savings to Theodore Dellwig was
for additions to flats in east line of
Ninth avenue, 164 feet north of Clement
street.
The Hibernfa bank lent $4,000 to Car
oline Busby to build flats in northwest
line of Folsom street, so feet south
west of Russ street.
The Italian-American bank lent
$500 to D. and ]. c. Maclean to cover
the cost Of frame flats recently COM
pleted IN west line of Dolores street,
$50 feet north of Twenty-third.
The s24 800 loan by the Savings union
to the Fifth street company on two
parcels of property in Fifth street was
a renewal.
The SIS, 900 loan of the Security bank
TO II. and l. Wolf on property in the
southwest line of Sixth street. 125 feet
southeast of Howard, was renewal
The Italian Americans $4,000 loan
to Platon Rojdestvensky at the north
west corner of Van Ness avenue and
Green street was a renewal
The $4,000 loan of the Hibernia
bank to Madge H. Fish on property
in north line of Clay street, 133 west
of Sansome, lot 3ox122, was renewal
The same bank renewed a loan of
S27.190 to John Hemphill on the 50x160
foot property in the southeast line of
Mission street, 205 feet northeast of
Eighth
Nearly all the other good sized loans
made and recorded during the week
were renewals.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
SUTRO AUCTION
SUCCESSFUL

The auction sale held last Saturday
at the office'of Baldwin & Howell of
properties of the estate of the late
Adolph Sutro was in every way sue
cess.
Departing from the usual custom,
the sale was held at o'clock in order
TO give many an opportunity to attend
who could not have done so had the
sale been at an earlier hour. The
property offered consisted of Is lots in
Ashbury street, IA lots in Sixteenth
street and the corner of Ashbury and
Sixteenth streets, and two lots rum
ming from Upper terrace to lower ter
race. The sale started off with the
offer of lot Il in Ashbury, which was
Knocked down to A. F. Mahony, who
Immediately after bought SUCCESSFULLY
lots 13. IA, II. Is, 10, 20 and 21, his
purchases aggregating the sum of
$10.350.
These sales were followed by the
sale Of the remainder of the Ashbury
street frontage up to and including lot
80 to A B. Melvin, E. NJ. Adams, j. E.
Dodge. ]. J. Avis, B. Kap1an and ].
Rosenberg. whose bids for the nine lots
aggregated $9,400. Thirteen of the lots
in Sixteenth street were next sold and
the bids ranged from s700 to s1,525, and
the lots were purchased by E. w. Ell
liot. L. J. Bailey, Lucy E. Block, Cold
enia F'indlay, N. B. McSheehy, w. H.
Humphrey, F. j. Halpin, J. S. Malloch,
Ellen Reinhart and James Gleeson,
whose bids aggregated $12,375.
The sales will come up for confirma-
tion in department 8, Judge Coffeys
court in the Grant building, Thursday,
November II. at 10 a. m.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
RUSH Street WORK
At PULLMAN PARK
Tract to Have Best Improve
ments of Any Suburban
District in County

Baldwin & Howell have let the con-
tract for the street work in Pullman
park 10 Blanchard, Brown & Co, who
have already started operations under
sn agreement 10 rush everything to
completion. This contract calls for
graded streets, macadamiZed full width,
SKIP inch redwood curbs and 4 foot
cement sidewalks throughout the entire
tract with the exception of Pullman
avenue, where q foot cement sidewalk
viii be built 1t is also stipulated that
the contractors lay water mains down
every street. with 1T" connections in
front of each lot.
Pullman park will have the only
fully graded streets in Contra Costa
county. with the exception of few of
the main business streets of Richmond,
said G. A Griffin Of Baldwin & Howell.
Our work is not only going to be put
through with all possible speed, but il
is going TO be thoroughly good and
class A in every particular We be-
lieve We have the choicest of all the
Pullman properties, and are going to
see that it is properly developed. The
street work is being done for service
and not for show, and we viii welcome
The closest scrutiny by any one who
will favor US by investigating the work
We are doing. II buyers OF lots would
examine the street work more carefully
than they generally do there would be
less losses in the real estate business
Every successful subdivision must
have the right kind of improvements,
and this is just exactly the kind that
are going into Pullman park
Last Sunday more than $4,000 worth
Of lots were sold. bringing the total
sale close TO 100000. Although these
figures are big, they are not surprising,
Joins the works and there is GOOD
demand for such lots.
At present there are no accommo
dations at Pullman for the employees
of the works, who are expected in
about 80 days. AS consequence, plans
are now being made for the erection
Of SIS 900 hotel in Pullman park. A
number Of lot buyers are figuring on
erecting cottages or bungalows for
rental purposes. and a spirit of activity
pervades the whole community.
Every Sunday from one TO two hun
dred people visit the factory, and all
seem Interested in the progress of Pull
man park, which is unquestionably
destined TO be the favorite residential
locality Of the town.
Among those who bought lots in
Pullman park during the last two
weeks are Miss Lydia Linsley, Zeno
Borserino, Mrs. Susie Finley, Mae q.
Burnham, Frederick ". Schurmann,
Marguerite Robertson, Frank ". Nc
Kenzie Vincent Tosseri q lots), Mrs.
Otto DolIing. Alice Kimmel q lots),
John Pontacq and Marquis e lots),
Frank Trachsier g Iots), Frank Nesow
q lots), Richard J. Pearce, L. c. Doolit-
tie g LOTS, P. Rouguier, NJ. T. Rosen-
thai Emma Ramnl. N NJ. Lundin, Glenn
Barnhart, NJ J. Victor @ lots). Mary
c Chambers g lots), G. NJ Fulton a
lots), George W. Scott. Sadie c. Lowrey,
Mrs William G. A Schwerin 6 lots),
Nell Hoskins q lots), William T. Price
q Iots), Valentine Britton, r. D. Snow
den. George T. Coltfelter g lots), An
thony Avinelis, Francis S. Waldo, John
T Scott q lots), Charles ]. Wall, and
Dudley Newton.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12

Baldwin & Howell have agreed to
purchase s71,o 900 non interest bearing
sewer. bonds of the 1904 issue If the
city stipulates to expend the proceeds
in the construction of a main outlet
sewer in Sunnyside district.