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STORY OF FAMOUS
CIVIL WAR FIGHT
Battle OF Gettysburg Which
Brought Credit to Both
Blue and Gray.
TURNING POINT OF CONFLICT
Total Losses on Both Sides In Three
Days Fighting Over 5o,ooo-Sev-
eral Generals Killed and
Wounded.
By EDWARD 9. CLARK.

~ YASHINGTON.-It is posi-
AI BILE, some people would say
WV probable, that the Battle of
Gettysburg changed utterly
the course Of American his
tory. 1t vas a great fight between
armies of Americans, for probably
fully ninety per cent. of the men who
fought on the two sides were born
natives to the American soil. The
bravery shown at Gettysburg was of
the order which Americans have
shown on every field and which re-
fleets credit upon the hardy and
heroic ancestry Of the men engaged,
no matter from what race they may
have sprung.
: At Gettysburg there was nothing to
choose between the valor of the North
and the South. The South lost the
fight, but it lost it honorably and
with the prestige of it's soldiery un-
dimmed. The charges made on that
field have gone down into history as
assaults made under conditions which
every man felt might mean death at
the end. The d~efenses made at Gettys-
burg were of the kind which it takes
iron in the blood to make perfect. At
Gettysburg Northerners and South
erners replenished their store of re-
spect for their antagonists. The bat
tie marked the high tide of the war
between the states. After it the
South largely was on the defensive,
but its defense was maintained with
fortitude and in the face of privations
which could not chill the blood of
men fighting for what they thought
was the right.
The Northern armies were persis-
cent in their attacks through the cam
paigns which after a few months were
started aginst the objective point,
Richmond. Brave men here and brave
men there. and after the end came it
was the qualities which keep com
pany with bravery which made the
soldiers of the North and South so
ready to forget and to forgive and to
work again for the good of a com
mon country.
The great battle Of Charlottesville
was fought not long before the oppos-
ing Union and Confederate forces met
on the field Of Gettysburg. Chancel-
louisville was a Confederate victory.
The Southern government believed
that the victory should be followed up
by an invasion of the North for, ac-
cording to it's reasoning, if an import
ant engagement could be won upon
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their destination had a short hand-to-
hand encounter with the northern sol
diers. 1t was soon over and Pickett's
charge, glorious for all time in his
tory, was a failure in that which 1t
attempted to do, but was a success as
helping to show the heroism of Amer
lean soldiers.
The losses at Gettysburg on both
sides were enormous. The Union
army lost Generals Zook, Farnsworth,
Weed and Reynolds, killed; while Ora
ham, Barnes, Gibbon, Warren, Double
day, Barlow, Sickles, Butterfield and
Hancock were wounded. The total
casualties killed wounded, captured
or missing on the Union side mum
bered nearly $4,000 men. On the Con.
federate side Generals Semmes, Pen
der, Garnet, Armistead, and Banks.
dale were killed, and Generals Kemp
er, Kimbal, Hood, Heth, Johnson and
Trimble were wounded. The entire
Confederate loss is estimated to have
been nearly 10000 men.
The third days fight at Gettysburg
was a victory for northern arms, but
1t was a hard won fight and the con.
fiict reflects luster today upon the
north and the south. Lee led his
army back southwark, later to con.
front Grant in the campaigns which
finally ended at Appomattox.
Forces Engaged and Losses.
The forces engaged at the Battle OF
Gettysburg were:
Notwithstanding to official
accounts the Army OF North Virginia,
on the 31st of May, numbered 74,468.
The attachments which joined mum.
bered 6,400, making S0,S68. Deducting
the attachments left IN Virginia
Jankins' brigade, Pickett's division,
1900; Corse's brigade, Pickett's divi
sion, 100; detachments from Second
corps and cavalry, 1900, in all $500
leaves an aggregate Of 75,56S.
Union-According to the reports o.
the Goth of June, and making allowance
for detachments that joined in the in.
term in time to take part in the bat.
tie, the grand aggregate was 100000
officers and men.
The casualties we're:
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the morning OF July I. He dispatched
a courier to Meade saying hat the
high ground above Gettysburg was
the proper place to meet the enemy.
Not long after this message was sent
to Meade General Reynolds who dis
horseback near a patch of woods with
his force confronting a large detach-
ment of Confederate troops which was
coming toward them. These troops of
the enemy we're dispersed by the
Union batteries and Reynolds was
watching the successful solid shot
and shrapnel onset when a bullet
struck him in the head killing him in
stantly.
General Abner Doubleday succeeded
Reynolds in command of the troops
at that point Of the field. A brigade
Of Confederates, a Mississippi organi-
cation, charged the Union forces,
broke their organization and succeed
ed in making prisoners of a large part
Of a New York regiment. Later these
men were recaptured and the Missis-
sippi brigade was driven back, a por-
ton of it ~surrendering. In the fight
on the first day at this point Of the
field or near it, one Union regiment,
the 151st Pennsylvania, lost in killed
and wounded 337 men out Of a total
of 446 in a little more than a quarter
Of an hours fight.
General Doubleday fell back to Sem
mary Ridge and extended his line.
The forces employed against him
here were greater than his own, and
was given up. The first days battle
was in effect and in truth a victory
for the Southern arms. On the night
of July 1 General Hancock arrived
and succeeded in rallying the Union
forces and putting new heart into the
men. General Meade on that night
ordered the entire army to Gettys-
burg.
Victory Not Followed Up.
For some reason or other perhaps
unknown to this day, what was virtu-
ally a Confederate victory on the first
Of July was not followed up by Gen
eral Lee early on the next morning.
General Meade therefore succeeded in
strengthening his lines and in pre-
pairing for the greater conflict. One
end of the Union line was some dis
lance east of Cemetery Hill on Rock
Creek, another end was at Round Top
something more than two miles be-
yond Cemetery Hill to the south. The
Confederate line confronting it was
somewhat longer.
1t is impossible in a brief sketch of
this battle to give the names of the
brigade and the regimental
ders and the names of the regiments
which were engaged on both sides in
this great battle. Meade, Hancock,
Howard, Slocum and Sickles with
their men were confronting Lee,
Longstreet, Hill, Ewell and the other
great commanders of the South with
their men. The line of battle with the
spaces in between the different COM
mands was nearly ten miles. 1t was
the Confederate generals intention to
attack al the extreme right and left
and at the center simultaneously. 1t
was to be General Longstreet's duty
to turn the left flank of the Union
army and to break it." Longstreet's
intended movement was discovered in
time to have it met v~aliantly. The
battle Of the second day really be-
gan with Longstreet's advance. The
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vas ordered to make It's way into the
Susquehanna Valley through the town
of Gettysburg and then to turn in it's
course after destroying railroads and
gathering in supplies, and to meet the
Confederate commander with the main
army at Harrisburg.
1t was General Jubal A. Early of
Gettysburg after a long hard march
On June 20. From there he went to
the town of York and from thence to
Wrightsville. At this place he was
ordered by General Lee to retrace his
steps and to bring his detachment
back to a camp near Gettysburg.
When Early aid obeyed Lees order
and had reached a point near Gettys-
burg he found the entire Southern
force was camped within easy strik-
ing distance Of the now historic town.
In the meantime things were hap
pening elsewhere. General Hooker
in command of the Union army which
had been depleted at Charlottesville,
had succeeded in out-maneuvering
General Stuart in command of Lees
cavalry, had got around Stuart's COM
mand in a way to prevent the South
ern general from forming a junction
with the forces of his chief comman-
der. Lee gave over the proposed
movement on Harrisburg when lie
heard of Hooker's approach and
brought the different parts Of his
army together.
Four days before the Gettysburg
fight began General Hooker resigned
as commander of the Union army.
Hooker and General Hailock dis
agreed upon a matter concerning
which strategists today say that Gen.
eral Hooker was right. Three days
before the battle began, that is, June
%, 1863. General George Gordan
Meade was named as General Hook
er's successor in charge of the North
ern army. General Meade at once
went into the field and established
his headquarters at a point ten or
twelve miles south Of the town of
Gettysburg.
NTfUiCS WCCt dt S~CttySDuTQ
It seems that General Lee on hear
ing that Stuart had not succeeded in
checking the Union army's advance
had made up his mind to turn south
ward to meet the force of Hooker, or
as 1t turned out the force of Meade.
Lee with his force had advanced
north beyond Gettysburg. while Meade
with his force vas south of the town.
The fields near the Pennsylvania vii
lage had not been picked as a place Of
battle, but there il was that the two
great armies came together and for
three days struggled for the mas
terry.
On the last day Of June, the day
before the real battle of Gettysburg
began. General Reynolds, a corps
commander Of the Union army. went
forward to feel out the enemy. He
reached Gettysburg by nightfall. His
corps. the First. together with the
Third and the Eleventh Infantry
Corps vita a division of cavalry. COM
posed the Union army's left wing.
The Firth Army Corps was sent to
ss..ssses.- 1Glty5bsfs.s
and the Twelfth Corps was immedi-
etely south OF Gettysburg az a dis
lance Of eight or nine miles. This
was on June 80. and the Union forces
were fairly well separted. but they
were converging and Gettysburg was
their objective.
General Reynolds Of the Union
forces arrived at Cstsysburg early on
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Northern soil the chances of foreign
intervention or at least foreign aid to
the Southern cause. would be forth
coming.
General Robert z. Lee late In the
spring of 1863, made his preparations
to conduct his campaign Northward
into the state of Pennsylvania. He
had under his command three corps,
General James Longstreet command
ing the First, General Richard S.
Ewell commanding the Second, and
General A. p. Hill commanding the
Third. In the Union army which aft
erward confronted Lee at Gettysburg,
there were seven corps, but the num-
Der of men in each was much less
than that in a Confederate corps, the
military composition OF each being
different. The Union corps comman-
ders who under Meade were at Get
tysburg, we're Generals John f. Rey-
nolds, w. s.. Hancock, Daniel K.
Sickles, George Sykes, John Sedgwick,
O. o. Howard and H. w. Slocum.
Forces Almost Evenly Matched.
1t never has been determined De-
yond the point of all dispute just 10
many men were reihfgsaaigecG' SaYH eachsiuS
In the battle Of Gettysburg. 1t is
known that the armies were very
nearly equal in strength. the proba-
bilities being that the Confederate
force was a few thousand men strong
er than the Union force, a difference
which was balanced perhaps by the
fact that the Union armies at Gettys-
burg were fighting Ia deiedse OF Zen
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Woman Has Thrilling Experience.

Woman Has Thrilling Experience.
Wood.-While caring for a setting
hen Mrs. John Haner, wife of a home
steader living about six miles from
Wood, had a thrilling experience with
a ra~ttlesnake, which for a brief time,
or until she discovered the reptile.
she held in her hand. She had some
hens setting in the barn, and with the
object of removing the little chickens
which had been Matched frem under
one of them, she wrapped her apron
around n hand and ran it under
the hen. She grabbed hold of some
thing in the darkness and at first be-
lieved 1t was IN of the little chickens,
but she soon was Mortified TO discover
that she had hold of a rattlesnakc
that had crawled under the hen. She
released her hold before the snake
could coil and strike her. Hurrying
to the house she secured a u with
which to shoot the snake, but when
she returned to the barn it had disap-
peared. The fact that she had her
hand covered with the apron doubt
less saved her life.
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Witness Arrested.

Lead.-A suit Of W. A. Quimby, one
of the best known residents OF this
city, against the Burlington railroad
for damages of over $4,000, came to
a sensational termination during it's
trial at O'Neill, Neb. The main wit
ness for the plaintiff, E. j. Eastwood.
of this city, was arrested and chargeA
with perjury, and on the showing,
Mike Harrington, the we'll known rail-
road attorney Of Nebraska, who was
acting for Quimby. asked the court to
dismiss the case, which was done.
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Ends Life by Shooting.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. because OF
failure to collect his outstanding bills
and meet his obligations, Henry Warn
cliffe, a local saloon man, committed
suicide here by shooting himself
through the mouth with a revolver in
a grove south of the city. He leaves
a wife and two children in New York
City to whom he wrote a letter before
he died. He had only been here a
short time.
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Pierre The rank growth of sweet
clover all over town Is causing some
alarm among those who are familiar
with it. In talking with a gentleman
.who sa-aarly lxsdjn .lQshio wa. wzasaEas
told that IL left alone 1t would become
a pest that wound require work znd.
lots OF 1t to get rid of. The gentle
man took the position and said h0
knew what he was talking about, thak
sweet clover vas as bad "a any o =
ious weed that grows and a. hard To
get rid OF a. any.
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y" ~<s-s 1900
Bow Killed in Storm.

Huron.-The 9-year-old o Of A. r.
Mertz, living ten miles northwest OF
Gettysburg, was killed in a wind
storm there. He and his father were
in a small barn on their farm when
tie wind 81, SSSSsSScneSNtiding, 1~s-SMsh-
ing 1t. The boy was killed and his
father sustained a fractured leg.
While there was no rain at Gettysburg
the storm northwest OF there was a
severe one, there being considerable
hail with 1t, enough to break windows.
1t wa accompanied by a straight blow,
the wind not being a tornado.
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Three Dollars a Day.

Pierre.-Dan Bierwagen, the alfalfa
man OF the Cheyenne river country,
is trying to find men at SO a day to
help him harvest his crop Of alfalfa
for this year. He estimates that IL
he can get it cut he will have two tons
per acre of hay on his two hundred
acre field, and the second crop will
bring him a thousand bushels of seed.
This at his average selling price Of
$12 a bushel will mean a good income
from the two hundred acre field for
this year.
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More Land for HosnitaI.

Yankton.-A tract Of los acres, filed
on is part of his original homestead
In 1866, by the late George M. Hand.
secretary Of the territory, has been
sold by his widow, to the state for the
state hospital. The price paid was
$125 per acre.
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Distinctive.

Distinctive.
SHOW me some tiaras. please. ]
want n FOR my wife,"
"Yes, sir. About what price?'
Ten at siyn9 -pflSe~ rfac"r"u I. ~
say: DO you see that woman with the
tiara? She Is my wife."-Pearson's
Weekly.
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Was Mother Of Eighteen.

Miller.-Mrs. Ernesty, living north
east of here, who died last week, was
the mother OF IS sons and daughters.
Is Of whom were at her funeral. She
was IS years old.
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Puzzled MissourIan.

Will some one explain why some
people who are invariably late at
church need no bell to call them to the
moying-picture show on timer
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-16

look forward confidently to the time
when it will be enjoyed equally by
both sexes in their communities. 1t
seemed to me as if these people were
suddenly being evolved from the tallow
candle age to the electric light age,
without having gone through the oil
lamp and gas periods. They were
making fir the same ideals exactly, as
the more enlightened women of Amer
lea and Europe are contending for.
"The movement has progressed so
far in China, for instance, that I had
the pleasure in the province of Can
ton, of sitting in the assembly, kind
of state parliament, where there are
nine women members. Just now, the
women of China are carrying on most
aggressive campaign for the national
vote. " Mrs. Gait urged the adoption
of resolutions recommending that all
countries which are overlords of col
onies of dependencies send out commits
sions composed of women to ascertain
what is being done for women in these
dependencies. She argued that such re-
forms as are being carried on in such
dependencies are for the benefit of
men only, and in some instances the
bonds of oppression are being more
firmly riveted upon the women. In
vestigatiOns of such conditions by men
would be ridiculous and useless, she
said. She explained her suggestion ap-
plies particularly to England but that
it affects also the United States,
France, Germany, Spain and even the
Scandinavian countries.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-16
speaker at International Meeting Tells
Oh Progress Made in Unexpected
Places.
AsToNlsHED BY STRENGTH
AND GROWTH ALL OVER
Chlna Cited as Instance Where Ag-
gressives Campaign Is Carried on
for Votes.
UNITED PRESS LEASED w1Rr.1

Budapest, June 16.-There are dis.
tinct woman suffrage movements in
the Philippines, China, India, Ceylon,
bnrmah, Sumatra, Java, the Holy Land,
Egypt and even on the south, hest and
west coats of Africa. In China. the
youngest republic and the Oldest conn.
try on the globe, there are nine women
members of the Canton state assembly
through out the supposedly unenhght.
ened parts of the Orient suffrage for
women is at hand These were some
OF the many intensely interesting de.
tails related today by Mrs. Carrie Chap.
man Gait, of New York, president of
the International Woman Suffrage AL.
lance, which today opened its business
sessions and began the real work of
the week S convention here Mrs. Gait
was addressing one of today's business
sessions. She has just completed an
eighteen months tour of the world to
which she was assigned when she was
elected president of the worlds great
est gathering of women at the Stock.
holm convention two years ago.
al was astonished at the wonderful
strength and growth of the suffragist
movement in countries where l did not
suspect that a sentiment for it even ex.
isted," said Mrs. Gait in her report
today, 81 found a distinct women s
movement in every part of the world
l visited, mainly seeking educational
improvement, but it was surprised to
learn of the large number of women,
especially in the Far East, who have
espoused the idea of the vote and who
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-16

Did you ever got nervous prostration
from trying to make others happy3
No9
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and file of his staff. They are against
the inspector, but they do not dare
disobey his orders, so they go about
making raids and enemies before they
were on friendly terms. The things
cut both ways, though, for Inspector
Dwyer, knowing that he is the object
of the antipathy of the men above
him, the men below him and the public
around him, is taking no chances. He
hews to the line and let's the chips fall
where they may.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-16

The strawberries taste the best.
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Fair Minded Physicians

Recognize the value of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and do not
hesitate to prescribe it. A woman from
st. Cloud, Mimi, says she was led to
take it because she learned that her
doctors daughter had been taking it
with most excellent results. This is
another link in the long chain of evil
denee to prove the reliability of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for
women.
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CABBAGE AND RADISH
MAGGoTs MAKE TROUBLE

Cabbage and radish maggots art
making trouble in every part of the
state where these crops are grown. A
l.. Lovett assistant entomologist al
the Oregon Agricultural college, has
made a special study of the pest, and
advises prevention and cultural meas
ures as more effective than remedial
measures.
AS the maggot is underground while
at work, it is hard to control. It is
advised that, as soon as the best OF
the crop is harvested, all refuse tops,
roots and stumps, all wild mustard and
similar weeds about the field, be col.
lected and destroyed and the land
plowed deep. Frequent hoeing about
the plants exposes many young mag.
gots and eggs to the sun. 1t is well,
of course, to avoid planting on infest,
ed soil, and to establish a crop rota.
tion there until the maggots are
cleaned.Out.
Tarred felt disc of one-ply tarred
felt paper 21a inches across, slit from
one side to the center and slipped on
the plant and then pressed close to the
stem against the ground, is the most
successful way of preventing the fly
from depositing her eggs against the
plant root.
Lime slaked and diluted to a thin
cream, with three pints of it to a
gallon Of water and a tablespoon of
crude carbolic acid thoroughly stirred
and applied with sprinkler or spray
pump will form slight crust on the
surface of the soil about the plants and
thus protect them pretty well.
A small handful of kerosene and
sand, mixed in the proportion of a pint
of kerosene to four gallons of sand,
placed about each plant is good, as
is also air slaked lime with white
hellebore powder, mixed ten parts lime
to one of the powder, and busted about
the plants.
Any of these must be renewed of.
ten to be of great assistance. Crude
carbolic acid emulsion has in some
cases given fair results. A pound of
whale oil or laundry soap is dissolved
in gallon Of boiling water, and after
taking from the fire pint of the
acid added. After a perfect emulsion
is made by pumping the mixture to.
gether this stock solution is diluted
with thirty parts of water for use and
applied with pump to the roots af.
ter the earth has been pulled back. In
ten days the application should be re.
peated.
In the same manner hellebore de-
coction may be applied 1t is made
by sleeping two ounces Of white hel.
lebore powder in a quart of boiling
water half an hour and diluting with
a gallon Of water
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-16
A Good Investment,

There is no better investment than a
fifty-cent piece in a bottle of Merito
White Liniment. Muscular and rheu
matte pains, swelling, lameness and
soreness of the muscles are promptly
relieved. Meritol White Liniment is
especially recommended as a general
pain killer of unusual merit Capital
Drug Stores
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The lonesomest woman in the world
rs she who hash z any old memories
70 brood over.
La Junta tribune., 1913-12-13

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M Hitg heat oNnrr ~ klttrdEs bullds
- Denver. colo