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yearlings to the Childress coun-
i being priced at $20, spring de-
Wiliiam Childress of San An^elo
bought from R. W. Hoskins fifteen
graded Hereford bulls at $30.
Stock farmers are gradually en-
croaching upon the large pastures In
the country around Childress.
Cotton seed meal makes a better
feed for dairy cows when mixed with
an equal weight of wheat bran.
The National Oil company of Den-
ison sold to the Sherman Cotton and
Oil company 500 cars of cotton seed.
Dale Bros, have shipped seventeen
cars of cattle from Henrietta to Bon-
ham to be fed for the eastern market.
A large number of Smith county farm -
ers will plant from one to five acres
in Irish potatoes for market this sea-
son.
During the month of .January Texas
furnished the St. Louis market with
24,388 cattle, 239 hogs, 7470 sheep and
21 horses.
It is claimed that from 200 to 350
bushels of onions can be raised in Col-
lin, Grayson and contiguous counties,
per acre.
The continued severe weather has
caused severe cattle loss, particularly
in cows, where the animals were not
under Shelter.
Hezekiah Williams of Kansas City
was in Fort Worth several days ago.
Mr. Williams is wintering 15,000 head
of cattle In the territory.
Joe White of the Pecos valley coun-
try bought a carload of fine registered
Durham and Hereford cattle at Colo-
rado City, paying $125 per head.
Ziebodd & Morris of Kerr county
have bought from H. H. Carmichael
of Banciara 500 head of mixed cattle
for spring delivery at $15 around.
James Wedell of San Angelo sold
to W. J. Jameyson his South Concho
raneh, consisting of 1400 patented land
and fifteen sections leased land, for
18000.
The Ellis county poultry, pigeon and
pet stock show-, held at Waxahachie
on the 6 th, 7th and 8th, was well at-
tended and a splendid exhibit wit-
nessed.
A trainload of ten cars of fat meal
fed cattle were shipped to the St. Louis
market, eight cars by Saunders & Jen-
nings and two cars by the Union Meat
company of San Antonio.
Hon. Barnett Gibbs of Dallas bought
the Slaughter Grapevine ranch in Tar-
rant county. He made a five-year
lease and a $25,000 conditional sale to
the Armour Packing company of
S0x200 feet on Elra street, Dallas.
Wm. Ragland returned to San Anto-
nio from a trip to Cuero and Yoakum
and reports heavy shipments to the
markets during the past few days from
the feed lots throughout that section.
Dr. M. Francis, veterinary surgeon
at the Agricultural and Mechanical
college, recently went to Beeville and
inoculated a herd of Hereford cattle
for R. E. Nutt, Sr., which that gentle-
man recently imported.
Cattle that have been on feed in
Texas are now moving rapidly to mar-
ket. From Corsicana, Tinkle & De
LaFosse shipped to Chicago over the
Cotton Belt four cars of bulls and two
of steers, and Ben Sweatman shipped
seven cars of steers.
There have been 10,000 acres more
wheat sowed in Van Zandt county this
season than for any one season for
the past ten years. There have been
from 500 to 700 acres planted In or-
chards, fruits, berries, etc.
I Owing to the large crop of 1898, and
the long time it took to gather and
market same, some Ellis county farm-
ers are behind with their land break-
ing and other work preparatory for thi
Ing and other work preparatory for
his year's crop.
Much land is now being cleared In
.ampasas county, and many who now
ly that not more than half the till-
VIe land is yet in cultivation. There
e yet many fine valleys which will
bid abundant harvest when thev are
thorough cultivation.
U Rockwall J. W. Vance has on ex-
iition a curiosity in the shape of a
It has two bodies well develqped,
h of which has four hoofs. The
s bodies comc together at the
iiJdera and it has one neck and
R*T«at«M Cremated. r
Yankton, S. D., Feb., 18.—The state
insane asylum at this place was the
scene yesterday of a holocaust which
sent a shudder of horror through the
community and the like of which has
no parallel in this state. One of the cot-
tages in the asylum grounds tool^jftre
in the basement at 2 o'clock yester-
day morning and seventeen inmates
confined therein were incinerated be-
fore help ciuld reach them.
The cottage was intended for laun-
dry purposes, but owing to the crowded
condition of the main building forty
of the female patients were housed
within its walls. The exact cause of
the fire is not known, except that it
originated in the dry room of the laun-
dry. The fighting of the fire was
greatly hindered by loss of power. The
burned cottage stands some 300 feet
in the rear of the main building, the
water tank which is for fire protection
standing 10 feet in the rear of the
cottage. The steam pipes used for
heating, and then to the artesian
pumping run from the boiler room of
the main building through the cottage.
Well or tank. The intense heat in the
burning building caused the pipes to
burst shortly after the fighting of
the fire began, thus leaving them with
out power and depending entirely upon
direct pressure from the tank, which
wnc in no way sufficient to quench
the fierce flames.
With the thermometer standing at
23 degrees below zero it was heart
rending to witness those escaping com-
ing down the flight of stairs in their
night clothing and bare feet into the
bitter cold, and had it not been for
the nearrfess of shelter the suffering
and probable loss of life from freezing
would have been terrible.
Fifty-two persons were in the burn
ing building, forty patients and twelve
female attendants. The atendants es-
caped, as did the others who were
saved, with none of their personal ef-
fects, many losing all that they pos-
sessed.
DIXIE DOINGS-
R..B. McConnell shot and killed his
father in South Nashville, Tenn., for
beating the boy's mother.
The Arkansas senate passed a rail-
road commission bill. It fixes the stl-
ariee of the three commissioners, who
are to be appointed by the governor,
at $300 each, to be paid by the rail-
roads.
The grand Jury at Malvern, Ark.,
brought in an, indictment against Har-
dy and William Sherfield charging
them with murdering and burning the
1 ody of Mrs. Horne, who mysteriously
disappeared from Hot Springs about
three months ago.
Win. Gilliland, a printer at Shreve-
port, La., and recently married, was
cut five times in the abdomen by an-
other printer named Charles Gregory.
Gilliland died.
By a vote of 64 to 26 the Alabama
house of representatives has placed
on the favorable calendar the dispen-
sary bill passed by the senate.
A peanut trust with a capital of
$5,000,000 has been organized at Nor-
folk, Va.
While crossing Clinch river, near
Middle»boro, Ky., in a wagon, Mrs.
Mary Williams, her son Harry and two
small daughters ,were swept down by
the current and drowned.
Nathaniel Baxter, Jr., G. B. McCor-
mick, James Gowron, A. M. Shook and
Walker Perry, officials of the Tennes-
see Coal and Iron company, have in-
corporated the Birmingham (Ala.)
Southern railway, with a capital of
$1,200,000.
The British garrison at Edwardesa-
bad In the Punjab, India, has had a
lively brush with a band of outlaws,
who occupied the towers at Goometti.
The British lost six men killed and
fourteen seriously wounded.
A horse with icicles, three inches
long protruding from his nostrils,
giving him the appearance of a young
rhinoceros, was a frost freak at Fort
Worth, Tex;*
l»rlftc<l Away
Chicago, 111., Feb. 13.—Sixteen skat-
ers living in the suburbs of Rogers
Park and Lake Forest were carried out
into the Lake Michigan on ice floes
yesterday. Ten of them were rescued
and during the entire evening search-
ing parties made fruitless efforts to se-
cure come trace of the missing six.
The missing are Attorney Elmer D.
Brothers, Miss Orel Manney, George
Mallory of Pontiac, 111.; Chauncey
Manney, Guy Carron and Arthur
Fletcher of Ravenswood Park.
AganclUo'a Statement.
London, Feb. 13.—The European
Filipino junta has received a long
telegram from AgonciUo to agent of
Aguflnaldo, dated from Montreal, and
declaring thet he left Washington in
consequence of a telegram which he
received on Feb. 4 from Aguinaldo
urging him to cable to Maloloe the
result of the vote of the United States
senate on the peace treaty. Aguinal-
do, It appears, added: "It is of the
most urgent importance that we
should at once be acquainted with
the decision, as we are negotiating
with Gen. Otis and the vote will vi-
tally affect the negotiations."
Agoncillo further declares that as
he was closely shadowed by the
American authorities, to dispatch
this telegram would have been im-
possslble, and he therefore proceeded
to British territory.
Agoncillo also said he was per-
suaded the treaty would not be rati-
fied, and points out that "three vote3
by which it was passed were only ob-
tained at the last moment and as a
result of the outbreak of hostilities."
The agent of Aguinaldo again ex-
pressed his conviction that the out-
break was "provoked by the Ameri-
cans for this very purpose."
The telegram continues:
"The Filipinos were anxious to
maintain friendship with the Ameri-
cans and had formally decided never
to be the aggressers."
Several dispatches have also been
received here from Filipino sources
dated from Manila via Hongkong and
give the rebel version of the outbreak
of hostilities. A Filipino dispatch
dated from Manila on Feb. 7 says:
"On Sunday a force of Americans
attacked simultaneously Caloocan
and Santa Mesa. Two American war-
ships were off Malabon and Malate
and a smaller gunboat was in the
Pasig river to protect the American
flank.
"For several days previously the
Americans had been endeavoring to
provoke hostilities and peace was
maintained only by the rigorous or-
der of Aguinaldo, who was negotiat-
ing with Gen. Otis for an honorable
understanding. The American at-
tack was unexpected. The ships de-
stroyed all the villages between the
shore and the Paslg river within an
area between Malate, Paranaque, San
Pedro and Mocatl. Crossing the river
the Americans advanced to San Juan
del Monte, capturing the waterworks
after a severe fight. They then pro-
ceeded to Singalon, establishing them-
selves on the river Dam. They tore up
a mile of the rails of the Caloocan-Ma-
lolos line and cut the telegraph in or-
der to stop communication with Agui-
naldo.
"The Filipino forces engaged num-
bered only 7000, including 1000 Ygo-
rotes. Acting upon instructions from
Malolos the Filipinos remained stricStly
on the defensive and finally retired in
good order without any loss of arras,
artillery or ammunition. Two old
Krupp guns of an obsolete pattern,
mounted on the fortress of San An-
tonio, were captured. The fighting was
very subborn and lasted continuously
from Saturday to Tuesday. General
indignation has been occasioned by the
treachery of the American surprise.
The Filipinos believe that the Yankee
administration is only favored by a
minority of Americans and abstain
from taking the offensive in order to
show their gratitude to the American
nation for helping .them to get rid of
tbe Spanish rule. Hence they will only
fight when attacked and their future
action depends upon the decision of
the United States.
"Aguinaldo declares that the real
enemies of peace are the American of-
ficers in the Philippine islands."
The Filipino junta at Hong Kong
has issued a statement in which they
accuse the Americans of trickery and
barbarity.
Cd«Mfi Attacked.
MaDlla. Feb. 11.—The America tf
forces £± 3:40 yesterday afternoon
made a combined attack upon Caloo-
can and reduced K In short order.
At a signal from the tower of the De
La Lome church the United States
double turreted monitor Monadnock
opened fire from the bay with the big
guns of her fore turret on the earth-
works with great effect.
Soon afterward the Utah battery
bombarded the place from the land
side. The rebels reserved their fire
until the bombardment ceased, when
they fired volleys of musketry as the
Montana regiment advanced on the
jungle.
The Kansas regiment, on the ex-
treme left with the third artillery de-
ploying to the right, charged across
the open and carried the earthworks,
cheering, under a heavy fire. Support-
ed by the artillery at the church, the
troops further advanced, driving the
enemy, fighting every foot, right into
the town line, and penetrated to the
preeidencia, lowering the Filipino flag
at 5:30 p. m.
The enemy's sharpshooters, in the
jungle, on the right, fired at long
range on the Pennsylvania regiment,
but the rebels were soon silenced by
shrapnel shells and the Pennsylva-
nians remained in the trenches.
As the Americans advanced they
burned the native huts. The rebels
were mowed down like grass, but the
American loss was slight.
His Twelfth.
Vancouver, B. C.. Feb. 11.—The
steamier Esmeraldo, leaving Manila
Jan. 10, arrived at Hong Kong Jan. 16.
Passengers said that on the 10th Agui-
naldo had isued his twelfth and last
proclamation, which amounted to an
ultimatum. In effect it gives the
Americans three days to make up their
minds what to do—"get out or fight."
In consequence of thiB ultimatum,
Europeans living in the outskirts
moved Into the city, and Gen. Otis
quickly prepared for the worst.
Aguinaldo is said to favor peace at
any price. His followers have not been
paid for three months and they de-
manded from Aguinaldo immediate
payment or the looting of Manila.
Having no money to pay them, the
soldiers got beyond the control of their
commander.
An American citizen on the Esme-
raldo said: "On Wednesday, Jan. 10,
the American soldiers were loitering
about in their aimless way, having the
appearance of men on whose hands
time hangs heavily. The streets were
crowded and business was in full
Bwing, but every one's nerves seemed
to be on edge as if disaster was immi-
nent and anticipated.
"All at once a great crowd came
rushing down the road. I heard the
bugle sound sharply in a dozen
places, calling the soldiers to quart-
ers and in five minutes not a boy In
blue could be«seen on the Escolta.
"On seeing the Americans the insur-
gents retired in quick order."
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cablegram from Manila says: v* k1
Brig. Gen. H. G. Otis hold the ex- ~
treffie left of the American line from
the bay near Caloocan, The regiments
on the line and in support are the
twentieth Kansas, Col. Funston, elev-
en companies; third artillery, Maj.
Kobbe, four batteries of Infantry, and
the tenth Pennsylvania, Col. Hawkins,
four companies. Two companies of the
tenth Pennsylvania are behind the
walls of the De la Loma church yard.
Across the ravine from the Montana
regiment is Capt. Jansen's company
holding a stone fort supporting Grant's
battery with four Utah guns. A fifth
gun is to the left on the railroad sup-
porting the Kansas troops. To reach
its present position the brigade has
advanced four times since Saturday, a
series of brilliant combats on different
parts of the line in action, especially
so on the 4th, 5th and 7th.
The last advance was most sanguinary,
the American losses being one killed
and six wounded, while the Filipinos
suffered a loss of forty-four killed
a^d were utterly routed. The brigade
has lost to date six killed and fifty-five
wounded. The Filipinos lost 130. All
the dead are buried. Several bayonet
charges were made on the 7th during
the advances of the right and ccnter.
The taking of the Chinese cemetery
on the 5th by the Montana and Penn-
sylvania regiments was a superb piece
of work. The brilliantly executed ad-
vance up the slope to open the battle
made a picture that would delight any
veteran.
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Bail Conduct.
Macon, Ga„ Feb. 11.—The merchants
and business men of Macon are highly
indignant over the atrocious robberies
committed by the members of the sec-
ond Ohio regiment yesterday as they
were being mustered out of the ser-
vice of the United States.
A large number of merchants sent
wagons loaded with merchandise out
to the discharged soldiers. The col-
onel commanding ordered them to
leave the camp, and upon their refusal
to do so ordered the men to pilfer the
wagons. The robberies committed by
the men did not end here, but they
came to the city and while under the
influence of whisky went Into several
stores and walked out with goods in
full view of the amazed merchants.
Several of them were arrested and
after turning over the goods were re-
leased. They also went to houses of HI
repute and committed all kinds of de-
predations.
This conduct was not general with
the members of the regiment and is
deeply deplored by a large number of
hetter class of the men.
At Anniston, Ala. Col. D. C. Colson
and Lieut. E. D. Scott of the fourth
Kentucky had a pistol fight. In which
the former was shot In the hip.
The residence of V. Gilliland, near
Mineola, Tex, valued at $600, burned.
Fuel and Scarce.^
St. Louis, Mo., Feb, 13.—Owing to
the prolonged cold spell the demand
for coal has trebled and not since the
coal strike last year has there been
suoh a scarcity of fuel In St. Louis and
vicinity. The severe cold weather has
affected the receipts of eggs and a
famine in that commodity threatens
St. Louis. Much of the receipts have
been frozen. Wholesale prices have
advanced from 13 1-2 to 23 cents dur-
ing the past week, but dealers are un-
able to supply the demand.
Kxploalon In Kitchen.
Baltimore, Md„ Feb. 11.—Frozen
water pipes caused a fatal explosion in
the kitchen of the female department
of the Home of the Friendless, Druid
Hill and Lafayette avenues, yesterday
morning. Martha Bolislty, aged 7, was
killed.
Florence Reifsnyder, aged 10 years,
was so badly burned that she died a
few hours after being removed to the
hospital.
Mary Welsh, a cook, was seriously
burned, but probably will recover. The
explosion caused a panic which was
quieted by the teachers.
Filipino Commissioners.
San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 11.—On the
steamer from Yokohama yesterday
came "Gen." Eriego de Dios and Senor
M. Rivera, who are Aguinaldo's "spe-
cial commissioners to Washington."
They were much disturbed when told
of the latest developments In the Phil-
ippines.
It is said that Gen. Miles will not re-
ceive a brevet for his conduct of th«
Porto Rico campaign.
At it Again.
Denver, Col., Feb, 11.—The apparent-
ly interminable snowstorm on the
mountains In the vicinity of Leadville
resumed sway early yesterday, after a
brief respite during the night. However
the wind and cold had abated and the
conditions were more favorable for the
work of breaking down the snow bar-
riers, which have closed the railroads
and cut many mountain towns off from
communication with the outside world.
The Leadville mine and smelter man-
agers made good their offer of 1000
snow shovelers to open the Denver and
Rio Grande railroad between Leadville
and Malta in order to get coal into the
camp. Much hard work was required
to remove the ice from the rails, but
the track was finally cleared so that
it was possible to run into Leadville
twenty cars of coal that had been stall-
ed at Malta.
On the Colorado Midland a large
force of men were at work breaking
the blockade at Snowden and brought
in thirty cars of coal.
Met at Washington,
Washington, Feb. 11.—The National
Farmers' Alliance and Industrial union
has completed a two days' session here,
during which many questions of inter-
est were discussed. The meeting adopt-
ed a platform reaffirming the demands
made at former gatherings, and in ad-
dition made a plea for the extension of
the rural free delivery postal service.
J. C. Wilburne of Olil Point, S. C.,
was elected president.
California Holdup.
Santa Barbara. Cal., Feb. llr—The
stage running into this place has been
held up by a lone highwayman, who
was concealed behind a fallen tree. He
was armed with a shotgun and made
his escape after relieving J. W. Arm-
strong and W. A. Paddock, commercial
travelers, of $40. The stage carried
no treasure.
Threatened Arrest.
Washington, Feb. 11.—Luna send#
from Montreal the letters of Aguinal-
do to Gen, Otis showing that Gen. Otis
threatened to arrest Aguinaldo if he
refused to give up the Spanish prison-
ers. This, it is claimed, is what caused
Aguinaldo to begin fighting.
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