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Goods Store
Successor to the B C Evans Dry Goods Company
ii -unparalleled success foi the first month shows that the public of Fort Worth and
fl u appreciate a good thing We shall keep up the good work
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Grain Silks and
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China Silks plain and figured at
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Challies lovely
-arid designs at 49c real
American Wool Challies at 16Ac
worth 30c
Lovely Persian Mulls beautiful
designs at 14e 17c and 19c a yard
Yard wide Batiste at 9c a yard
regular price 20c
ju t received the above goods by express from our New York buyers who closed out
rfis line of Fancy Dress Goods and Silks at a great sacrifice
WHITE GOODS AND TABLE LINENS
Nain onks satin striped
i ii mn work etc at lUc
1 lc this is half their
in lovely effects at 17c
t lniiis at 6c lie 19c to
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Turkey red Table Damask fast
colors at 2Sc a yard worth 50c
Bleached Table Linens at 39c
49c and 55c great bargains
Extra fine quality Table Linens
at S7e Si 10 145to 175 Posi-
tively can not be imported for this
price
Linen aud Table Scarfs
lovely Mexican work and other de-
signs from 44c to 75c worth from
75c to SI 50
Napkins all qualities at sacrifi-
cing prices
An immense stock of towels
very cheap all qualities
SWISS FLOUNCING AND PARASOLS 250 Sample Parasols at half price
II- -lied Plaited and Plain Embroidered Flouncing in black and white at importers
lew and Stylish Millinery at a Great Sacrifice
V jin the largest handsomest and cheapest line of Millinery in the city Come and
e - Summer Novelties just received
DRESSMAKERS TAKE NOTICE We will sell you Percalines Silesia and all
il Dress Linings and Dress Furnishings just 30 per cent less than you pay else
1 liee articles are staple and you know the prices but we guarantee the above
500 Rolls Carpets Mattings and Linoleums Just Received
1 see them and compare our prices with others and note the great saving to you
TIE BEARDLESS OF TlH
WE WILL UNDERSELL THE CLOTHING WAR
1 never allow anyone to undersell us in any kind of goods that we keep for sale
We positively mean what we advertise
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No 207 Houston Street
BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS
Apents for the Genuine Oxford Teachers
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UNFAIR
The Postal Department Alleg-
ing Misrepresentations
IN THE EL PASO MAIL MATTER
A Deadly War Being Waged Against Secretary
Noble by Western Republicans
Who Have Openly Kequestcd the Presi-
dent to Jtcmovo Him Prince KumcII
One of the Prime Movers In the
War The President Uneasy
The Unfair El Paso Statement
Special to the Gazette
Washington- May 10 The postofllce de-
partment officials have resented as unfair
and misleading the statement sent out from
El Paso Texas in regard to tho arrest of
the postmaster there The El Paso Dispatch
announced that the postmaster had confis-
cated the whole mail edition of the Times
because that paper published a synopsis of
the Louisiana supremo court decision
directing the secretary of that state to sub-
mit to the people at the next election a con-
stitutional amendment passed by the last
legislature continuing the charter of the
lottery company twenty five years longer
Tho authorities say here that the post-
master simply detained the issue of the
Times until he could telegraph to the post-
jawger general for instructions and on re-
gh in one sense intended us an adver
tisement of the lottery company did not
actually come within the scojmj of the anti
lottery law promptly forwarded the edi-
tion which had been held over temporarily
This it is said here cannot be called an
unlawful doteution of mail matter for it
was the duty of the postmaster to ask for
instructions from the department if he liad
any doubt as to the admissibility of the
matter Inquiry as to the legality of the
subject matter of the Louisiana supreme
court decision came from several quarters
and the assistant attorney general for de-
partment Tyner after examining the arti-
cles forwarded ruled that they did not of-
fend the technicality against tho existing
law The department is confident that no
case can be made out against the El Paso
ixstmaster for simply detaining copies of
the Times pending instructions
TI1E F1GIIT OX SECRET ART NOBLE
waxes hot and is attracting a great deal of
attention here It is not tho first time his
opponents have assailed him The presi-
dent has been asked outright more than
once to remove him or find somo other
place for him The opposition is stronger
now than ever before It includes nearly
every Western Republican senator of prom-
inence several of the party managers from
other sections of the country and Russell
Harrison Of courso it remains to be seen
what influence the presidents son can
bring to bear in a matter so importaut as
changing the complexion of the cabinet
For a long time Gen Noble did not at-
tach much importance to the movements of
his enemies He let them trot up to the
White House as often as they pleased and
never so much as asked what was the pre-
cise nature of their complaints But of
late he is said to have been somewhat un-
easy and felt that his hold on tho president
wa3 not so strong as it onco was His
friends declare that the warfare on him
finds its chief support in the disappoint-
ment of claim agents and land grant rail-
road companies whose schemes as is as-
serted Gen Noble has succersfully ex-
posed and blocked The man wanted in
that office Nobles friends insist is one
who ill run it for all its worth both to
individuils and to the party
The feeling here is that if Noble should
leave tho cabinet it would be to accept a
place on tho bench The president does not
like him particularly well aud would
probably be glad to make peace with
Nobles Western opponents He would
hardly think it safe under the circum-
stances to tako any extreme action as the
decapitation might be followed by an in-
vestigation as to the real cause of it and by
a huge scandal besides
An Historical Picture
WAsmxoTON May 10 Albert Bierstadt
will paint the mammoth historical picture
of Waitings Island which is held by a ma-
jority of gcopraphical authorities to have
been the first land touched by Columbus
FAVORABLE
THE NEW YORK BANK STATE
MENT IS A GENUINE
Surprise to Wall Street anil Speculators
Jay Gould Watching the Export-
ation of GoM Bars
Special to the Gazette
New York May 10 The weekly bank
statement was a genuine surprise not only
to Wall street but to the bankers them-
selves The most conservative of bank of-
ficers had unhesitatingly prophesied that
the reserves would show a loss of at least
2 000000 and other prophesies went as high
as 1000000 When the bank statement
was issued however and the reserve
showed an increase of 14S900 the bank of-
ficers without exception declared it was
no use attempting to prophesy what a state-
ment would show Tho bank president
said to a reporter of Tiie Gazette in rela-
tion to the statement that it proved con-
clusively to him that very heavy liquida-
tion was going on and the business of his
own bank plainly Indicated that such was
the case The statement also showed that
there had been a very large amount of
money received this week from the coun-
try which to a great extent had offset tho
drain of gold for Europe
The total amount of gold reported to day
was 3850000 but that did not actually fig-
ure in to days bank statement The total
amount of gold reported this week was T
000000 It was said by bankers that the
export of gold would probably continue for
another week or two
Gould is considerably exercised over tho
continued reports of gold and thus far has
been unable to satisfy himself as to the real
cause for the steady drain He is making
searching inquiries here and abroad in re-
gard to it At present he thinks tliere may-
be a probability that gold is going out to
fill up soma holes caused by the Baring fail-
ure in which case there is no telling just
when it will end He thinks there Is even
a probability that gold may bo going in
preparation for a war Gould tells his
friends that the market would go up if it
was not for these gold shipments and that
even now it would recover quickly from
the strain which has been on it if there was
certainty of the amount of cold still to go
out
AfrtLLAIC WUtil
Business Transacted by the Court of Ap-
peals Yesterday
Special to the Gaiette
Austin Tex May 1C The court of ap-
peals to day rendered decisions as follows
Affirmed Fort Worth and Denver City
Railway Company vs Ray from Montague
Dillingham receivers vs Jackson from
rayson
Statement of facta stricken out
ler vs Holisden from Clay
Bills of axceptfoa strickan nt Bad emtua
riaiiaiii
continued Fort Worth and Rio Grande
Railway vs Huerd from Erath
Motion to strike out briefs overruled
Schuber Co vs Simmons from Wise
Motion to strike out statement of facts
overruled Texas and Pacific Railwavvs
Parker Baldwin from Taylor Gulf Pa-
cific and San Antonio Railway vs Halch
from Uvalde Cleveland Cameron vf
Herring from Green
Certiorari awarded Fort Worth and
Denver City Railway vs Bennett Co
from Wise
Rehearing overruled Davis et at vs
Glasscock from Williamson
Motion to file new appeal bond granted
Burleson vs Lindsey from Maverick
Presiding Judge White has been confined
to his bed all the past week caused by at-
tempting to lift a bath tub last Sunday in
which lie strained and wrenched his sDinc
RAUM TALKS
lie Explains How the Report Gained Cur-
rency That His Son Appropriated STS
or the Governments 3Ioncv
CniCAGO III May 16 Green B Rauin
commissioner of pensions was in Chicago
yesterday when the news of his sons
resignation was first published
I handed the resignation to the secretary
before I left Washington said Mr Raum
I thought it was the best thing my son
could do and it was on my advice and with
my entire sanction that ho stepped out of
the pension office The charge made that
Geen appropriated to his own use f7i be-
longing to the department is untrue I
know how that statement came to be made
Sometime ago STS was sent to the office in
niy care and my son opened the letter
There was no letter or anything accom-
panying the money to indicate where it was
from and after some length of timo my
sou informed the new clerk that ho would
turn the money over to the treasury depart-
ment to be placed to tho credit of tho con-
science fund That same night he took
the money to his home and next day
deposited it in the treasury Simply because
he had that money with him at home the
charges were made that he appropriated
it
NEARING AN END
BACKBONE OF DALLAS STRIKE
SUPPOSED TO BE BROKEN
Labor League ltejolTes Harney Morri
sons Idiosyncrasies Kansas City
Sunday Sun teal Estate
BACKBONE Or TIIK STKIKK BKOKEX
Special to tho Gazette
Dallas Tex May 10 It looks to day as
if the backbone of the strike was broken
This morning a full force of men were put
to work on the cable road Police officers
and deputy sheriffs were on hand to see
that the men at work in the trenches were
not molested Shortly after work began a
party of nine hour men made an attempt to
get the men at work to quit but the
agitators were soon dispersed by the offi-
cers It was then given out by the strikers
that no ten hour men would bo allowed to
resume work after noon but the ten hour
men went to work all right enough and con-
tinued without interruption until night
These men are working ten hours a day and
receive 105 and ate to be paid weekly
More men will be taken on Monday
At a meeting held this morning by the
Labor league the following resolutions of
indignation were adopted
Whereas it appears that the contractors
of the cable railway company have circu-
lated a report that the laborers on strike
aro riotous and disorderly and
Whereas said report together with their
importuning the sheriff aud chief of police
have been the cause of concTTntratinEf the
police aud deputy sheriffs along the line of
said companys works and
Whereas said concentration of police and
deputy sheriffs gives the public the impres-
sion that wc are conducting ourselves in a
riotous manner and
Whereas our members liave been sober
orderly and gentlemanly acting only as
law abiding citizens and have as yet shown
no demonstrations of violence therefore
belt
Resolved that a true copy of these reso-
lutions be inserted in the Times Herald and
Morning News and a copy be sent to the
chief of police the sheriff of Dallas county
aud the city council
R C Wallace President
R C D McCcllocuh Secretary
It was stated to day by the strikers that
all the laborers in the city would go out by
Monday noon unless the cable line granted
the nine hour rule This move is doubted
however by the masses
BAllXEY JIOllRISON
Barney Morrison who for the oast few
months has so often been called before the
public on account of his strange actions
last night added another chapter to his pe-
culiarities Barney is now in jail as a
Federal prisoner He again took a crazy
fit and was treated to a cold bath by the use
of the waterworks and a hose Tho water
brought him to his senses as he soon cried
LCt up I can stand anything but this
Morrison lives at Quanah He was ar-
rested by Federal officers for a postofllce
robbery Ho was thought to be insane and
was turned over to the state authorities at
Fort Worth and from there sent to the in-
sane asylum After three weeks he was
pronounced cured and released only to be
again arrested by the Federal authorities
on the old charge of robbery He was ex-
amined by United States Commissioner
Lednum and bound over in the sum of
000 in default of which he was sent to
jail Now he again acts like a lunatic
Whether his crazy actions aro real or
feigned remains to be learned
TOUXO MEN INDIGNANT
A copy of the Kansas City Sunday Sun
which reached hcrcthis morning contained
an article very detrimental to certain young
men of this city The articlo was illustrated
with pictures of the men The peculiar
thing about the matter was that the write
up purported to have its foundation from
tho court records of Dallas county but the
Suns correspondent in some way got mat-
ters mixed and wrote up the wrong man
The parties went before the proper authori-
ties and had an injunction issued restrain-
ing the paper from being circulated When
the train arrived this evening having on
board the paper a largo crowd was present
expecting to see some fun Two deputy
sheriffs were present and enjoined tho
agent from circulating the papers A wagon
load of Suns went away from tho depot
under the charge of the deputy sheriffs and
the agents for the papers It is understood
that the parties who worked up the injunc-
tion case intend to fight until the sale of
the Sun is surpressed here
A REAL ESTATE DEAL
A large real estate trade is reported here
to dav by which Bowser Lemon exchange
120 acres in South Dallas valued at 100000
to O S Riggen and W H Lewis for inside
property valued at 67500 the difference
being paid in cash Currie Burlew made
the trade
Bak clearings for the week 1853
14918
The date of the Prohibition conference at
Corsicanahas been changed to Tuesday
May 19 instead of May 12 Matters of
great importance are to be discussed Let
all Prohibitionists in your neighborhood
know the chance of the date and of confer-
ence WD Kxowles
Chairman Prohibition State Convention
Jean Bratuuio Dead
BccruiiEST May 16 M Jean Bratiano
a distinguished Roumanian statesman is
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THE FORT WORTH GAZETTE
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FOBT WORTH TEXAS SUNDAY MAY 17 1891 SIXTEEN PAGES
THE INTRUDERS
Judge Overton Love En Route
to Washington to Investigate
MONDAY SET AS OUSTING DAY
Non Citizens in the Chickasaw Country With-
out Permits He Says Must Go
Position of Senator Ianl of the- Cliickas nr
Xatlnn The Ieileml Court Cant
and tin- Indian Court Will
Xot Prosecute llliu
Arrested for Horse Theft
Special to the Gazette
Akdmoue I T May 1C Deputy United
States Marshal S T Lind ey arrested and
brought in this evening Frank White from
near Woodford I T charged with stealing
a horso on the night of May from Dan
Van Anstine a farmer living in that
neighborhood White was given t hearing
before United States Commissioner Flem-
ing and his bond was fixed at 400 which
he could not furnish and will be taken to
Paris to night
Can Afford to lie Independent
Special to the Cazette
Pahis Tex May 10 A queer situation
has developed urder the law allowiug citi-
zens of the Indian tribes to take tho oath of
allegiance to the United States and declare
themselves United States citizens This
act of congress docs not require a surrender
of their Indian citizenship but simply con-
fers the additional privilege of Federal citi-
zenship The legislatures of the different
Xat inns at once passed laws forfeitingthe
Indian citizenship of any one who acquired
United States citizenship Senator Sam
Paul a blood Chickasaw months ago
had a serious affray with his son whom ho
shot or cut badly Paul is one of those who
have availed themselves of the law spoken
of and whose Indian citizenship under tho
Indian law i lorfeitcd and hence the In-
dian courts regarding him as only a United
States citizen refused to trfjjmd prosecute
him The case came here- Wfoiv the Fed-
eral grand jury but it refused to find a bill
on the facts but the citizenship question
was discussed aud the government takes
the view that the Federal court had no
jurisdiction because under the treaties
natives and etcn adopted citizens are
triable only by native courts for offences
against each other aud that Paul could
have plead that himself and injured party
were both native Chiekasaws a bar of any
Federal prosecution So wc havo hero a
class of people whom one court cannot
prosecute and the other will not
Goiii to See- the Great Iather
Special to the Gazette
Gainesville Tex May 10 Jtulcc Over
ton Love of the Chickasaw- Nation was in
the city to day en route to Washington to
see the president in regard to tho trouble
now in the Chickasaw country concerning
the ejectment of the intruders
J mice Love is the most influential Chick-
asaw in that Nation is an able lawyer aud a
shrewd diplomat and it is thought it is
through his dictation of tribal affairs that
the United State government has been
called on to banish a large number of while
uon citizens from that country
The judge is the tribal agent to look after
all the affairs of the Nation connected with
the United States government Ho is the
prime mover in having the intruders put
out of his Nation and what he nays on this
subject is reliably correct and in conversa-
tion here this morning with a Gazkttb re-
porter regarding the
wectjient or intruders
he made the following statement concern-
ing the status of that affair
the last day allowed by the
governor to delinquents to pay up their
permit tax and all who fail to hold iermits
after this day will be put out of the country
without further ceremony Indian Acent
Bennett is now at Tishomingo with a troop
of cavalry and Governor Byrd has a com-
pany of sixty militia here also who will
join the Federal troops and on Monday
they will go to Ardmore establish their
headquarters and proceed against intruders
The modus operandi will le to go to
every non citizen and demand of him to ex-
hibit his permit from the proper tribd
authority and all who aro not able to pro-
duce that necessary document will be placed
under arrest immediately and hustled out
of the country with strict orders not to re-
turn
the families
of those ejected will be put out also under
tho same restrictions
Thero are over six thousand of these
non citizens who have never paid lcent
of permit tax and many of them havo been
living in our country for years and openly
defying our laws in every particular
These were notified to abandon the country
by the 1st of last November the order be-
ing given by the United States govern-
ment as well as by the Chickasaw govern-
ment and thoy paid no attention to either
order but have gone along as persistcntly
as ever in violating our icrmit laws
These fellows cant secure permits on
any terms they have got to go
The Chickasaw government and the inte-
rior department long since decided that
these intruders must be taught a lesson
and there is no palliation for them they
will bo forcibly thrust out of the country
A large number of these men have en-
deavored to take out permits during the
past few weeks seeing the government is
determined to eject but they have been un
ablo to secure the now coveted prize which
heretofore they treated with bold contempt
as the permit collector has long since been
given orders by the Chichasaw govern-
ment
not to issue permits
to this pernicious class of non citizens
They have got to move Wc have no ob-
jection to law abiding non citizens living in
our country but wc claim that when the
white man comes among us he should obey
our laws just as he would have to observe
the laws of Texas or any other state and
wo mean that he shall if ho resides in our
midst
No non citizen will bo bothered by the
militia and government troops who has his
permit nor will anyone be refused a permit
in future unless he belongs to that class of
intruders who now have ho permits Theso
intruders who will be ejected beginning
with next week will not be allowed to live
in our country again legally as no permits
will be ever granted them
Charged With Iorjcery
Special to the Gazette
Sherman Tex May 10 E G Childs
was recognized in the sum of S00 in the
dLstrict court to day on charges of forgery
Mr Childs is from the Indian Territory and
is a man of prominence
The ladies received about J XW at the
cemetery festival last night
The Baltimore Arrives
Iocquiquee May 16 The United States
ship Baltimore arrived this morning from
Valparaiso The San Francisco and Balti-
more will remain on this coast under the
command of Admiral Brown
Admiral McCann who is on board the
Baltimore will bo transferred to the Pen
sacola which is expected here in a few days
and will then leave for the Atlantic
Annual Donkard Meeting
Datton Ohio May 10 The annual
Dunkard meeting with the brethren and
their wives from all parts of the United
States began at Trotswood a few miles
from this city at noon to day The business
sua religious meetings are an neia in an
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menso tabernacle erected for tho purpose
There arc also sleeping quarters and large
dining halls for 10000 jcople A great
religious meeting will bo hold to inorrow
and the business meetings next week
BLAINE CONVALESCING
The Attending Phjstrian aud Mrs Ulain
Speak Hopefully About the Patient
New York May It Dr Dennis was a
the residence of Mrs Damrosch at 9 oclock
this morning After the physician had
paid a visit to Secretary Blaine he gave out
the following-
Blaine had a very good night and is free
from pain this morning He seems much
better and while his feet are still slightlv
swollen the attack of gout is subsiding and
in a few days ho ought to be abo to be up
and a-out-the house He enjoyed a good
breaVast this morning and seems very
comfortable
Mr Blaine who was seen says that sho
did not think Mr Blaines illness was at all
serious and added in supiwrt tho fact thai
she had not telegraphed either of their sons
Both Mrs Blaine aud Mrs Damrosch
spoke cheerfully about tho condition and
early convalescence of Blaine
Mrs Blaine when seen this afternoon
said ihe was unable to understand why tlm
good oople of Washington were so much
exercised over the condition of Mr Blaine
While tho secretary is in Washington
Mrs Blaine said -he is often attacked b
gout and has frequently been confined to
his room for several days at a time Tim
plans Mrs Blaine added for her husbands
departure for Washington havo been aban-
doned as this weather is greatly against
the suiciding of the gout and she concluded
by saying that in aU probability it would lu
a week before Mr Blaine could leave for
the capital
KEEP UP STOVES
Forecasts by the Gazettes
Weather Prophet
THE COLD WAVE COMING
The Weather llxtreiues Show tU Influ-
ence of Jupiter and Saturu Tropi-
cal Hurricanes Should be In
vestisatcd by the Bnreau
Special to the Gazette
St Josrru Mo May 10 My last letter
gave the forecasts of a storm wave due to
cross the continent from the 15th to the
19th aud the next will be due to leave the
Pacific coast about the -1st cross the
Rocky AUeghauy valley from the tiind to
tho 34th and reach the Atlantic coast about
the This storm wave particularly
afleets the Southern states causing very
warm weather along the gulf coast to tho
southeast of the low barometer or storm
center while northwest of the storm center
and following it the weather will be un-
usually cool with frosts in the states that
adjoin the British possessions The center
of this storm wave will probably move by
way of Salt Lake Southern Colorado In
diau Territory Tennessee and thence east-
ward The reader should remember that
the center of tho storm wave is the least
severe art of it while the principal forces
are developed in its southwest and north-
west quadrants The closu observer will
havo noticed thatsinco the 1st of April tho
weather has run to great extremes The
first of the month was warm fine weather
on the 4th aud 5th heavy rains fell through-
out the northwestern part of the United
States the snow being from two to four
feet on tho level in Connecticut and the
Upper Hudson river country very warm
again alrout tho middle of the mouth with
great electrical storms then a period of dry
weather followed by numerous earth-
quakes snows and frostfi duriny the first
week in May These extremes show that
the coming equinoxes of Saturn and Jupiter
began to influence the storms during tho
montli of April I expect these extremes in
the weather to gradually increase with each
succeeding month Following the storm of
the 1st to the ith the rain period will be
due and we may expect an increase of rain-
fall The rains however will not be evenly
distributed but will lie excessive in spot
and deficient in other places as is always
the case in years of great meteorological
disturbances
TROrlCiL hurricanes
In portions of the United States my fore-
casts of the storm wave of May 4 to T ap-
peared not to be verified Tho storm cen-
ter was well on time on the M and 4th al
which time a high barometer and cold wave
of great force appeared in Montana mov-
ing rapidly southeast which run through
the storm center that was then in the Da
kotas and disorganized it causing consid-
erable snows however in tho northern tier
of states and very severe frosts That
cold wave was of the same nature and came
of the same cause that do the cold waves
and blizzards of the winters
All cold waves that aro of unusual se-
verity and extend further south than
usual are caused by tropical storms on the
Gulf of Mexico on the Atlantic
off the coast of Florida But wo
have no reliable record of those
storms Our weather bureau has not recog-
nized that tropical storms cause all our
blizzards all our severe cold weather and
all the late destructive frosts and have
made no special effort to give us a reliable
record of those tropical storms With such
a record their periods could be determined
and then wc could know when to cxpecs
the sudden changes they cause on tho con-
tinent
The covernment woathcr maps show that
a tropical storm was off the coast of Florida
on the 5th and 0th but do not indicate its
force
These tropical storms move in a circle in
the Atlantic north of the equator They
move westward in about 10 to 20 degrees of
north latitude and when approaching the
Gulf of Mexico gradually turn their course
toward the north and then northeast fol-
lowing the current of the gulf stream and
when in the Gulf of Mexico or on the south-
east coast of the United States they never
fail to organize a cold wave in the western
Canadian possessions which moves south-
east across the continent being guided by
the location of the tropical storm
In October and November these tropical
storms are of greater force often penetrate
our coast along tho Gulf of Mexico and are
called tropical hurricanes It would be of
great value to know tho periods of thesu
tropical storms and if we had telegraphia
connection with Porto Rico Dominica and
Jamaica the approach of these tropical
storms from tho east could be known several
days in advance for they move very slowly
their destructive force being in their whirl-
ing motion
I have noticed that these cold waTes
caused by the tropical stormsusually strike
our regular storm waves while tho latter
are in the Dakotas often cutting them ia
two and this causes the most of the fail-
ures in my weather forecasts
If I had control of the weather kureau I
would direct special attention to these
tropical storms as being the most important
matter to be investigated If I had a rec-
ord of those storms it would go a long way
toward perfecting my system of meteor
olocy
The readers of my weather letters must
not expect infallibUItyjtheymayhopehow
ever that as soon as we can get the author-
ities too looking in the right direction we
can soon give to the country the value of
the 800000 the people are paying out an-
nually for the support of the Washington
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