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Evening star., 1911-08-09

After his first success in getting together
the Consolidated Steel and Wire Com
pany he was asked to assume the presi-
dency Of the Illinois Steel Company
after the hard times" panic. Gates
gradually extended his activities and IN
fiuence and in the fall Of 1897 he deter
mined to try again to merge the Wlre
companies.
the undertaking, but was scared out
when the Spanish war started Lloyd IL
Smith. Chicago capitalist, jumped into
the breach, and he, Gates and Eliwooo
floated the $9O.OOO.000 wire combine.
Plays Game From Outside.
But with all this tremendous money
power behind him, Gates could not get a
seat in Wall street So he played the
game from the outside. He came to New
York with his bankroll and set up his
son, Charles G. Gates, In the brokerage
business under the name OF the son
who had been admitted to the exchange
From that time father and son were in
separable, both in business and pleasure
The brokerage house soon made the
high record for a days business on the
New York exchange-425OOO shares-or
which the brokerage commissions were
approximately $4,000.
When Wall street grew tiresome In 1900
Gates took his son with him to England
where he plunged on the stable OF hit
friend Drake. On one race he backed
Royal Flush from Is to to 8 to 1
and won half a million dollars.
The panic Of 1907, 1t was said. hi,
Gates hard and it was pointed out tina,
he would have to retire from active
world with his son as diversion anc
| then returned to New York A news
paper reporter hunted him up ana ven
tured: II understand you're all in. down
and out"
BET you a million I amt" retorted
John w. Gates, and his old spirit was
aroused
what Gates real condition was at that
particular moment is unknown. put It's II Is
| known that he resumed his old fiery
methods and before the opposition was
aware Of 1t he had built up the Texas
company and was fighting Standard on
| from the state out Of which the Rookie
feller concern had just been driven by
| lished over thirty branches in the east
and began to compete with the older
concern. The battle is still on.
Despite his lavishness with his money.
John w. Gates never laid claim to doins
anything for charity. When he gave
buildings, equipments, land and money
to the amount of $226,0O0 to the Methodist
| Church early In 1911 for the erection OF a
Methodist university dI IOIi <AIlhoI. iCA'
II was not as a gift. said the capitalist.
Port Arthur Is where the headquarters OF
the Texas company are located. and
Gates declared he thought It would tnure
to his benefit to have the university there
and thus boom the city.
Before House Committee.
Gates created a sensation last May when
he went before the House committee in
the steel trust investigation and told his
story Of how the United States Steel Cor
poration was organized. The use he made
or Andrew Carnegie's name brought forth
indignant statements from the latter.
Throughout his entire life. John w.
Gates never asked favor. his acquaint-
he cd He i'll All
Evening star., 1911-08-09
HAYDEN'S
F and 10th Sts.

Undermuslins From the
New York Dressrmakers'
Stock ON Sale Thursday.
S1.oo Gowns at soc; all
styles.
White Petticoats, worth
$3.50, at osc.
$500 White Petticoats, SI.5o.
$500 Silk Petticoats, all col
ors, SI.o8.
S2.oo Princess Slips at 98c;
all sizes and colors.
Slips worth up to $500 at
$I5o.
zoe Corset Covers and Draw
ers. nicely trimmed with rib
bons. embroideries and laces,
at 25c.
sI.oo Corset Covers and
Drawers at 3oc.
Ladies' Nightgowns, worth
$I.5o to S2.oo. at 6oc.
Extra choice worth up to
$3.50 will go at o8c.
One big lot Of Short Skirts,
Gowns. Corset Covers and
Drawers, worth up to $I.oo.
will go at 25c.
$500 w. T. Corsets at oSc.
SI.oo Corsets at 6oc.
7sc Corsets at 4oc.
soc Corsets at 2sc.
Big Hosiery Sale.
Onyx Hosiery, worth to
SI.oo. Sale prices. Ioc, 25c and
3oc. Many silk hose in the lot;
all coloTs.
25c Gauze Lisle Hose. in
blacks, whites and colors, at
roILc
Evening star., 1911-08-09

LdulCS NuDUCIlZCu DIX
Shower Coats; worth up to
$1,000. Sale prices, 1898 and
S4.o8.
Hayden's Shirt Sale.
Sample Shirts of such ia
nous makes as E. & w., "Grif-
fon" Brand, Darlington. Worth
up to $3.50. Will go at 6oc, o8c
and $I.I5.
Mems $I.oo Shirts on sale at
soc.
6oc Shirts at 3oc.
soc Shirts at 25c: in light
or dark colors; and all sizes in
the lot.
Boys Dress Shirts, worth
soc, at 2Ic.
Mems soc Balbriggan Shirts
and Drawers; all sizes-25c.
Mems $I.oo Athletic Style
Nainsook Union Suits at 3oc.
Mems Clothing.
Mems All-wool Blue Serge
and Fancy Worsted Suits,
worth $I2.5o, all sizes, in
stouts and regulars, at $6.o5.
Mems Suits, broken lots,
worth up to $1,000, at &.o5.
$50 Mems Suits, in serges,
pin stripes, cassimeres, home
spuns, etc, worth to $500,
at So.35.
900 pairs Mems Pants, all
sizes from 80 to 46, worth up
to $500, at SI.o8.
Evening star., 1911-08-09

1t matters little what II is that YOU
uant-whether a situation servant
"a want ad in The star will reach the
person who will fill your need
Evening star., 1911-08-09
HAYDEN'S
+ and 10th SITS.

Ladies Rubberized Silk
Shower Coats; worth up to
$1,000. Sale prices, 1898 and
$4.o8.
Evening star., 1911-08-09

Visit our HAIR GOODS
DEPARTMENT and obtain
the very latest and best hair
styles. Most reasonable
prices. The following are spe-
cial prices for tomorrow only:
Single Puffs. in gray and
other shades. Usual
ly $1.oo. Sale price. 6oc
Cluster Puffs. Usually
$I.1o. Sale price. =. 7oc
Cluster Puffs, "a to IS
puffs. Usually $500.
Sale price .SI.3o
All of our 2o-inch Switch
es. Regularly $3.50.
Sale price. ...... .$1.So
New Aero Hair Nets. -. sc
Hair Department = Third
Floor. Private parlor for
matching hair.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-13
COUNTRY OF CONTINUAL UNREST

THE beginnings Of the troubles that wreck
Nicaragua at frequent intervals lie back to
its discovery by Columbus. small remnant
of Indians has recently been found living on
an island near Bluetields, speaking the Ian
guage Of the Aztecs and having traditions Of
ruling in splendid cities over the subject
tribes Of the coast.
These cities. of which great ruins remain,
at once attracted the Spanards to the in
terror, that from Panama to Yucatan not
an important Spanish settlement was formed
on the Caribbean coast, and thus the coast
tribes, freed from Aztec domination re-
manned almost unknown to the Spaniards,
having no property worth looting.
Loot was plenty among the buccaneers, but
fresh food and women they lacked. These the
grew up, which speedily developed into an
alliance against the Spaniards, by means of
which the Indians maintained their indepen-
,dence, until their chief was carried, in 1885,
with great pomp, to Jamaica, where he sur
rendered his authority to the duke Of Abe
marie and was then crowned and received
back his insignia as a vassal king, under a
british proteCtorate, of all the coast from
Chlviqui lagoon to Yucatan, along what Is
known as the Mosquito coast
Subject to occasional clashes with the Span
iards, matters went on thus for a century,
each successive Mosquito king going to ia
ally, In 1888. by the peace of Paris, England
specifically abandoned it's protectorate over
all of the Mosquito coast. except for the part
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now known as Belize, or British Honduras
which then became and still remains Brit
ish colony
French revolutionary turmoil again brought
war between Spain and England. In the
course of this, the protectorate was revived
so that, In spite of SPANS becoming later
the ally of England against Napoleon the
three succeeding Mosquito kings Of the first
half of the nineteenth century were crowned
as of old in Jamaica or Belize and did hon.
age for their kingdom, the last in 1847.
In 1921 after long struggle, all Central
American broke away from Spain and offered
to join the United States as five states, an
offer which was at once refused, as the pop
ulation was not considered sufficient in num-
sufficiently advanced otherwise to be de-
sirable element. The refusal stirred up bad
blood against the Engl!sh-speaking peoples
and dispute with England over the protec-
torate.
BY the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850, both
England and the United States bound them
selves not to seek exclusive rights in any part
OF Central America Again the protectorate
made trouble, and London and Washington
agreed on treaty by which the Mosquito
coast was to be protected by treaty with the
Central American states interested, but these
refused the suggested terms, and, finally, in
1860, Great Britain concluded separate treat
les with Honduras and Nicaragua, by which
to the first she surrendered absolutely all au-
thority over the almost uninhabitable portion
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men from st. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago
ana men from numerous smaller cities who
are interested financially in agriculture and
INNING work in Nicaragua. Many are already
reallzlng on their Investments
Along tne Rio Grande river there is wide
sretch OF territory covered with bamboo,
some of which is planted in bananas. Ship
ments of bananas were taken out of that Sec
tlon 1or the first time few weeks ago by the
Pan-Amer1can company, Kansas City and st.
Louis concern There are half dozen small
companies beginning operations and within
six months fully 100000 or 100000 acres of ba
nanas will have been planted along that river
which Is said to be the best for the culture
OF this particular fruit Of any in the republic
The bananas-about 5000 bunches-shipped
lately were the finest taken into the port of
New Orleans.
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a /X1INRAGZI4N E4/zHI

the store, faylng off labor in Nicaragua Is
much like taking dollar from one pocket and
putting it into another. That's all right, so
far as it goes, but when the laborer-generally
an Indian Jamaican-thinks he has too
much to do he quits. He can live without
work. and works merely to please his foreman.
The foreman who can get the good will of the
Indian is the valuable man. The superin-
tendent of a coffee plantation has been trying
to get 800 men to work for the last two years.
At one time he had 130-and he is a man the
natives like, too.
The manager of big banana plantation is
having the same trouble. A month two is
frequently spent getting half a hundred men
together. Indians stay close to their villages
and the hope of the planter is the building
of these conglomerations of huts. Give the
workers bamboo covered shed in which to
live, build them a church of the same ma
terial and secure for them a preacher, even
though their morals seem lax, and the natives
will probably spend their lives on the planta-
tion-working when they feel inclined Now
and then they want to wander away and get
all the bad whisky they can buy, but they
return in time to again take up the machete
Good treatment appears to be the only secret
If there be any secret of getting labor in
Nicaragua
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in the northern part of the Republic ana
founded the Lone Star mine. To-Day ne Is
several times over millionaire. Joe La fere' a
French Canadian, discovered the Bonanza
mine from which millions IN gold nave oeel
taken The Topaz Mining company is an
other having venture The chief difficulty
with the mining is the matter of transporta-
ton.
While the earnings Of the various mines
have proven satisfactory, yet 1t Is IN the "a
mana business that the figures presented by
American experts prove amazing; they sho"
payment for land, cost of clearing, planting
and harvesting at the end of the second year
with an additional profit of SO per cent on
the investment. They are indeed startling, but
the men who make them point to the United
Fruit company having started business on
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the nature of a gift, and therefore that inter-
est should not be added to the arrears; and,
second, that the vessels belonging to the
Mosquito coast should hoist the Nicaraguan
flag though against Nicaragua's contention
they were allowed to hoist their own along
side of it; but on every important point the
decision was in favor of England
Under this decision settlers began to come
in, especially from Canada and Jamaica, and
business became quite brisk. Nicaragua
to vote in favor of full citizenship, and mat
tiers went on merrily till few months after
Zelaya's rise to the presidency, when, in
January, 1894, Nicaraguan army suddenly
appeared at Bluefelds kidnapped and sent to
the interior the chief justice and all the lead
ing men of the coast, and in their absence
ordered an election, with soldiers at every
polling place, to determine finally the status
of the coast
In this election there could be only one
result, and Nicaragua announced that the
coast had accepted full citizenship In Mica.
ragua, and, therefore, British interference
was at an end.
For ten years. in spite of occasional at
tempts at revolution. one nearly successful
matters went fairly at Blucfelds and
business grew, but in 1904 there began sys
tematic attempts to Cypress this coast
As further vexation of foreigners the
Moravian missionaries and the Church OF
England rector at Bluehelds, who, since the
Catholic churches have been harried out OF
existence, are the only representatives n
religion OF any kind in all this region, have
had their schools closed because tuition was
in English.
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beating Of wings, melancholy
squawk, and then, tumbling and roll
ing head over heels in the air in a
confused mass, eagle and lobster
came down again into the pool.
The men rushed forward thinking
that they could, perhaps, in some way
obtain both combatants, as the splash
ing of the conflict continued in the
shallow water. But they had hardly
time to pick up a stone apiece to
throw at the eagle before the lobster,
feeling itself sufficiently at home
again, let go its hold.
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DRr2/vG CQEEE

knew better than any other diplomatic official that
left alone they would never cease fighting.
AS the result of his work in the service, the
United States has virtually established protec-
torate Nicaragua At all times American
warship is within four hours call by the wireless
An American postage stamp is as good in Mica
ragua as it Is In Louisiana. Mail for the United
States goes through the American consuates and
is carried in sealed sacks to New Orleans and Mo-
bile to port the Pacific coast In another.
1t is not handled by natives. There is opening
of mail addressed to the subjects Of the United
States these days. common in the past.
That is result of Minister Merrys work
and today he is in the diplomatic service in Costa
RIGA, watching his labor bear fruit
President Estrada Is good fellow as Nicara-
guans go-but he couldn't last twenty minutes as
the head Of people who love to fight If the Unit
ed States department at Washington wasn't hold
ing his hand over the rough places. They are
going to send commission down there in
short time to straghten out affairs and con-
duct the first honest election the country ever
had. Then J. P Morgan & Co. will handle the
refunding of the $20,O00O 900 bonded debt. BY
that time the United States will be we'll in
charge, probably with Consul Moffat minis
ter and real head of the government.
Just rapidly possible Nicaragua Is
being made good place in which to live.
American capitalists and investors are crowd
ing into the country with rapidty Now that
the days Of the revolution ended-the ma
chete made implement Of agriculture in
stead of Wharf.-The future Of the little republic
looms bright. Mines being developed, for
ests cleared. lagoons drained and homes built.
Men from the north and middle western states
causing the hustle There business
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of the coast claimed by Honduras, while to
Nicaragua she agreed to surrender her pro-
tectorate and recognize the sovereignty OF
Nicaragua.
Nicaragua in turn, agreed to grant complete
local self-government to the Mosquito tribes
then of blood largely diluted with strains OF
white and Jamaica negro, and using Eng
lish as their official language. Nicaragua
also bound itself Is make free. port OF
Greytown at the mouth Of the navigable river
by which the great central lake of Nicaragua
discharges into the Caribbean sea, and for
ten years to pay annually to the Mosquito
Indians subsidy of $4,000.
After 10 years less than half of the sub
sidy had been paid, while in violation of the
treaty Nicaragua had imposed duties at Grey
town under the pretext that they were to
pay the subsidy and had introduced gov
ernor and a garrison at Bluefelds, the Mo-
squito kings capital, and was otherwise vex-
ing the Inhabitants so as to force them to
abandon the English language and their local
self-government. Finally, after most inso
lent treatment of the British consul at Grey
town, who had been appointed the Mosquito
kings agent to receive the arrears, England
sent warship to Greytown Nicaragua pro-
tested that, the British protectorate had
been withdrawn and Nicaragua's sovereignty
recognized over the coast, it was none Of
England's business whether Nicaragua fulfill
ed the treaty stipulations in favor Of the In
dams. But the captain of the warship was
not moved by this, and after much parley the
entire matter submitted to the arbtra-
ton of the emperor of Austria.
On two points the Ncaragua1 contentious
were upheld, first. that the subsidy was of
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shoestring, SO to speak "a few years ago, and
being worth few dozen millions today
They have tried rubber and made a fail
ure, cocoanut plantations bring forth fruit
slowly, pineapples grow large, as do grape
fruit and oranges, but they ripen so quickly
and the import duty is so heavy that exporta-
ton under present conditions is hardly to be
considered. Rice does fairly we'll, while COT
fee on the west coast reaches high grade OF
perfection. The coffee, diplomatic and other
officials assert, is the finest in the world.
The chief trouble on the east coast is ind
ing hillside level enough to stand on and
cultivate the product.
The labor question in Nicaragua has the
servant girl issue in the United States beaten
a nautical mile. One man will tell you he has
no trouble in getting labor. If he means real
work there is plenty to be done, but from the
standpoint of the employer, the task is no easy
one. Money means nothing to the average
native. One plantation manager told cor
respondent he had 60 men working for him
and that he transacted business on 500 soils
monkey money, they call it-a year. This
plantation conducts store, as do the major
ity The men are paid in the national cur
rency which just steadily comes back into
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Now, with its neck all torn and de.
void OF feathers, away few the bed.
raggled eagle to neighboring cliff,
while, still brandishing it's enormous
claws in defiance, the lobster remain.
ed at the bottom of the pool.
The Strenuous Ticket.
"A lot of people are complaining
that they don't get their moneys
worth from this railroad" said one off,
cial.
WELL" said the other, well rem
edy that Well make the tickets a,Xsgd
and a half longer
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barnacles shining white in the sun
light.
Only for a second, though. The
ripples on the pool had not yet died
away, the large drops of water had
not ceased to fall upon it's surface
from the soaring eagles feathers,
when the lobster suddenly awoke to
the seriousness of the situation, and
to think with that apparently help
less creature was to act. Up came
the white barnacled claw and seized
the eagle around the neck.
There was a furious futtering and
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Lobster Worsts an EAGLE

shore watching big white-headed
eagle soaring around in circles, when
suddenly they saw it dash down into
a pool of water close by them on the
beach and reappear, holding an enor-
nous lobster in its talons. 1t was an
old lobster, with huge claw white
with barnacles, but the eagle had 1t
clutched firmly around the back, and
at first the onlookers could see the
claw hanging helplessly down. the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-13

Mining throughout
the country, while be-
ing pushed, is. NOT .
bringing the money
returns of fruit. Many
men, however, have
struck it rich in the
mining region. A Ca
madam by the name
of McGinnis, located
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Fierce Old SheIlfish Fights His Cap.
tor in the Air and Regains His
Liberty.

"The disappearing lobster" as fish
commissioners have termed it, might
not only remain but would flourish
and increase if it always resisted cap
.ture like one in Newfoundland.
A New York man and his guide
we're sitting on the rocks by the sea-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-13

Mr.. Windows Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, softens tho gums
dammation allays palm, cuees wind collie. 2oa bottle.
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Occasionally you hear some one
mentioned as being q good liar.
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incredible Brutality.
Willis-Under this years football
rules you can't assist the man with
the ball.
Gillis-Great Scott! What do they
do-stand around and let him die?-
Puck.
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oarnacles shining white in the sun
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through the streets Of Manaeua by the soldiers OF
President Zeaya, but conditions In these three
years have wonderfully changed. Perhaps no man
saw farther into the future of these Latin Amerl-
can Republics than did Minister Merry. sea
captain on a Pacific Mail liner he became stu
dent of the native and his country. He probably
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
READY FOR APPROVAL.
Final Designs for New Battleships
Authorized by Congress.

The final designs for the two battleships
authorized at the late session of Congress
are ready for departmental approval. The
plans provide for oil-burning ships of
20ls knots speed. and otherwise a repro
duction of the battleships of 1910 The
armament consists in the main battery,
of ten fourteen-inch guns. so disposed
that there shall be two turrets containing
three guns each and two turrets contain
ing two guns each. This is regarded a $ an
ideal arrangement Of turrets. limited to
four
1t has been decided. after much discus
sion of the subject to have additional
weight Of armor. the heaviest being the
fourteen-inch of the main belt. 1t was
suggested that the maximum thickness
be as much as seventeen inches. 1t has
been regarded as one of the demonstra-
tons of the firings against the Katahdin
and Texas that there must be greater pro-
lection. with an extension of the armor
to a greater under water area.
Most of the features incorporated in
the 1910 battleships are retained for the
1911 vessels.