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At~i]:;;[^:: grounds will be illuminated at
'if r[:tkby an electric display in rich
i:o.,rs,. made from a steel tower 100
I: '9et :high erected on the plaza in. front
of: teil main 'Expbsition building.
v , -:?One of the curiosities exhibited at
,' /the fair will be a horse with a phe~:'"
?-aoh'enal mane and tail. His mane is
A:!, -28 'feet long and, his tail 22 feet. He
;' - ':is 16 hands high. and weighs 2200.
1:/ -:':From the large Cunningham sugar
,.[.: plantationo, near Houston, will come an
I?'/ : .exhibit of Texas sugar and sugar cane,
! ': .and of the paper made at the factory
-i. ' recently built there, out of the stalk
Si, ,and pulp of the cane.
- .:' i. Cleburne will' send a watermelon
A: :'.w>ighihig 103 pounds to evidence the
* ~fiE'b'lity of the sandy land of the Cross::
:-Tiiabers to outshine Georgia in water.
e.- me'on production. This is a reminder
"1': .' that a Johnson county watermelon of
, r similar size was shipped to President
Harrfson, and greedily consumed in
the tw'hite House.-i;:.... The Texas Press association will
i-'..;' '-'hold a regular meeting at the State
tat?,.? .Fair grounds on Friday, Oct. 22, which
;-b.will be an adjourned session from the
m".: '' C- meeting at Greenville in May. A large
:;:'" ** attendance is promised, and President
_.;?':K ' Vernon writes that one of the leading
L:<V: . orators acrd politicians of the state will
deliver an address.
Each year witnesses improvements
f'". - -.Yin the appliances with which animated
pictures arn produced. Prof. Roltair
.....,,, \' keeps at thE head of the procession in
-' ~-^.. entertainments of this class. His
... . '' "Night and Morning," which will be
exhibited at the Texas State Fair is
' st once realistic and dazzling. In its
"- Rich coloring and life-like movement.
Nature itself teems to be. surpassed.
','" '"'. Geological Pall, in charge of Prof.
".'- ,: ,; Cummings, will contain a full display
Ai i' -a = of woods, minerals, rocks, fossils, etc.,
4:~. of Texas. The student or curiosityseeker
will find much here to interest
: _him.
-. Roswell, New Mexico, will make a
fine display of ~fgar beet products
;, from irrigated Ilnd. Roswell wants
,-. immigration and knows how and
X: -where to go for it.
'-: A Confederate veteran will be at the
fair that all who fought for the "Lost
Cause," and all interested in war rel=i.i:
. .Xics will desire to see. It is a horse
:1'( ' : ' forty-one years old, whose rider
:Ad' " through the war was a member of
:: ' A 'd- Oaptain Bumpass' company of cavalry
; wbehic jent from Terrell. Both .rider
.-.'. nd horse 'were wounded twice and
both are still alive.Racing at She Fair.
theas 'the wbvM'jrecorilf sevei~J y~arifj -:,- '
'.;but: one other horse- whq~e .anie -1 A....." .Io :-e 'etn"-, ~~-?
* canit recall,:;tok 'the:sam':e:?mar i.and:'[ '/ (l p I . . . . '..
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Silent F Jariend, Incoml, rto eosterItn6 wh'reaeortri-da
a dower, Tom Sawyer, Buck Walton, andI cty may _not be .prta .d.
r other good Texa horses have never truth is forcibly illustrated in the
yet permitted northern flyers to take senstlon caused by tle electric theatre,
any purses out of Texas it out it wa hich draws vast rowdsu wherever it
at the end of a horse race. Hal is presented. Visitors toathe coming
isher and Charlie Wilson, from away Texas State Fair wil have an oppr-J
out in the Conho country, Run After tunit to see it. ,
'Em, from Johnson county as well as A complete description of this elecMabel,
Alfonse, Bonnie Byrd and oth- tric wonder is an utter impossibility,
but an idea can be given. Its wonders
ers, have gone up north and turned
several tricks that equaled the recent can be more readily realized when it
performance of J. M. B. when he par- is known that the electric ower
alyzed the bookies ao.d made all Texas necessary to run this wonderful piece
laugh. Certainly the number of s uc h of mechanism equals that necessary to
as I have named has greatly ncreased light the entire fair grounds and buildsince
the association has provided the ing.
normal school where they can obtain. The scene opens on a dimly lighted
diplomas that qualify them to stand stage, the hour supposed to be S p. m.
up and recite in any sort of company. Twilight is slowly deepening into night.
"The effect of this fair has been even Slowly and steadily the darkness is
more marked in regard to harness dispelled by the gray light which floods
horses. Twelve years ago there were the scene. For the first time the aufew
standard bred horses in nalTTexas. dience are enabled to discern the outOur
first harness races were largely lines of the scenery portrayed by the
composed of young stock and slowpreclasses.
The fast classes were almost cipitous, looms up,in front of which is
entirely northern horses that were a valley in whose bosom nestles a plabrought
down to Texas to pick up soft cid lake of real water. On the left is a
snaps, winter on cheap feed, and keep small village, consisting-of church, parin
form for early racing in the north. sonage, several dwellings, well-sweep,
Now our Texas breeders not only mix hay stack, and other realistic rural
it with them at home, but send big matters.
stables of equine missionaries over the As the sun rises the sky begins to
north every season to teach the world glow with rosy light, the hills catching
that Texas is a great horse country. the first gleams, and as the moments
When Reno's Baby, Prospect, and go by the valley is flooded and the
George Campbell, of the Reno family, dark, uncertain shadows give way to
W. M. Hill, with Lena, Crickett, Judge broad daylight.
Hurt and Abbott Hill, and the fast The day grows apace. During the
young Electrites, with here and there forenoon people, both' foot and horse,
a colt from other sires, go out for the cross the bridge going in both direcmoney,
the horse that has to beat tions. A heavy shower of real rain
them would testify, if he could talk, I takes place, accompanied by peals of
that Texas. has some mighty wood reverberating thunder, while the mounhorses."
tain crags are vividly illuminated by
There will, as usual, be thirteen days flashes of both sheet and chain lightof
racing this year, with five races ning.
each day, and the purses offered foot Gradually, and very naturally, the
up $30,000. Only one fair in the en- storm subsides and as the sky clears
tire country-and that in California- up a rainbow spans the hea ens, reachmaintains
so long a period of racing. ing from the base of one mountain to
Last year there were over five hun- the foot of the other.
dred race horses on the grounds; the After a season comes sun-set. Twiindications
are now that even this ight gradually creeps over the quiet
large number will be increased this scene, the light changing first to yellow,
year. Entries have already been made tuen to purple-deepening into crimfrom
Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, son, until finally the sun sets, the light
Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, dies out, and darkness envelops the
Kansas and Indian Territory. Chica- scene as with a pall.
go will send fifty, Kansas City as many Moonlight effects are then shownand
St. Louis one hundred. A number lights apepar in the windows, of the
of horses, local and foreign, have al- various buildings and the "Cycle of a
ready been quartered in the fair sta- Day" having been completed, the curbles
and placed in training. The track tain falls.
has been improved with modern machinery,
and is now in prime condi- BOB TAYLOR COMING
tion, being as speedy as the horse that
moves over it. American Racing and To Help the Tennesseeans Celebrate Their
Trotting Association rules will govern. Days at the State Fair.ARENA PROGRAM.
Dates on Which Premiums Will be Awarded
Upon Live Stock.
' -I I a ONDAY, OC'tOBER 18.
Class 107. Berkshires.
Class 94. Cotswolds.
Class 96. Southdowns.For nearly a decafle the Texas State TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19.
Fair has been the mainstay of the turf Class 108. Poland Chinas.
interest in the southwest. Great at- Class 97. Shropshires.
tention has been paid to the racing de- Class 98. Oxford Downs and Specials
partment from the beginning of the in the Sheep Department.
fair, and liberal purses have been of- OCTOBE
fered to bring the best horses from WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20.
abroad and stimulate the production of Class 104. Jerseys, Texas bred.
competing types in, Texas. The re- Class 105. Jerseys..
sults are best stated by Judge J. H. Class 109. 'Essex Swine.
Dills, of Sherman, who has been iden- THURSDAY OCTOBER 21
tified with this department from the Class 102. Hosteins, Texas bred.
start, as superintendent. To an in- Class 102 tei, Texas bred.
terviewer he said: Class 103. Holsteins.
"Several years prior to 1886 when Class 110. Duroc Jersey Swine.
this fair was organized other and less FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22.
populous cities had established fairs, Class 100. Herefords, Texas bred
that coupled with their stock exhibi- Class 101 Herefords.
tions, gave some fine racing programmes.
Paris, Sherman, Gaines- Class 111. I. O. C. Swine. Specials
ville, Fort Worth and Waco had hung in Swine Department.
up good prizes and drew together fine SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23.
displays of stock, both for the arena Class 106. Shorthorns. Specials in
and the track, but the patronage did Cattle Department
'not sustain them, and they were finally
abandoned. These fairs had nearly all MONDAY, OCTOBER 25.
suspended at the time Dallas launched Class 76. Standard bred Trotters.
her enterprise, and the local interest Class 83. Standard bred Trotters.
of these several cities flas centered on Class 84. Thoroughbreds.
Dallas as the common ground for all Class 85. Thoroughbreds.
North Texas, where all could meet to
compare the excellence of the stock TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26.
produced by rival breeders. The Dal- Class 76. Imported and Native Pure
las Fair became the court of appeals bred Percheron Normans.
where the merit of all show stock was Class 78. Imported and Native Pure
determined, and the speed of the fast bred Clydesdales.
Ones was decided. An ambition grew Class 79. English Shire Horses, Imup
among progressive citizens of Texas p'd and Native Pure bred.
to excel in all classes of horses. Stim- Class 80. English Hackneys.
ulated by what they saw at the fair,
our breeders went abroad to get the WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27.
'best blood to be had for money and it Class 81. Farm Horses.
soon came to pass that as good spec- Class 82. Carriage and Buggy Teams
imens of the ponderous Percheron and Class 87. Horses of all work.
the colossal Clydesdale came in from Class 86 Roadsters.
the ranches of Texas as could be seen I 88. koaaster nt
--h....- i_ L. ..-... .- _..- . u. Class 88. Jacks and Jennets.The prince of southern orators, Bob
Taylor, will be one of the distinguished
guests at' the State Fair. At the urgent
request of Col. John N. Simpson, who
has in charge the celebration of Tennessee
days-October 20 and 21-Gov.
Taylor has consente&dot i'asild' the
duties of chief executive -"'i state
and pay a visit to Texas and the State:
Fair in honor of th-t occasion:
Whoever has failed to hear Bob Taylor
fiddle, sing or talk, has one material
pleasure in front of him. His
admirers, which include all of his
auditors throughout the country, claim
that he is without an equal on the
lecture platform, from which he went
relunctantly to fill for the third time
the executive chair in Tennessee, upon
the imperative demand of his enthusiastic
supporters in that state.
The transplanted Tennesseans in
Texas are zealously at work throughout
the state to make the Tennessee celebration
at the fair worthy of their-native
state, and Gov. Taylor's acceptance
of the invitation to come and
make them a speech has greatly increased
their interest in the event. t
BIGGEST OF WHALES. (Will be Seen at the State Fair.
It is not often that a land-lubber has
a chance to see a real whale. Visitors
to the coming Texas State Fair will see
one of the largest specimens ever captured
of these monsters of the deep.
It will not be a stuffed whale, but a
whale with all of its original proportions,
preserved by an embalming process,
without the loss of a single member
except its tongue. It weighs 80,000
pounds, or as much as two heavy car
loads of freight, and is fifty-five feet
long. An idea of its immense size may.
be gained from the statement that
from the base upon which the body
rests to the dorsal fin it is ten feet,
and a man six feet tall can stand between
the jaws of the great.flsh. Its
capture was one of the most sensational
episodes in the history of whale
fishing and was attended with serious
danger to the darinrn hnntmen wuh o,,_1
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'day Was the quietest of the 'wee-k in against the Mobmouds are proeee/di
New Orleans, and the fever :situation satisfactorily. Gen "'Westiao ha..
in spite of the appearance of -a rather completely demolished the headquat.
'arge number of new eases, may be ters of the Haddah Mullah, in the vil:aid
to, haue soiown iuch -improve- lage of Parobia.
ment. :Fifteen-.cases were recorded on .While this was being done, a body
the books of the board of health, but of soldiers was caught in ambush In
there was no deaths' since Friday. a defile, and sharp fighting ensued,
The authorities'received reports dur- but the soldiers succeeded in retiring
ing the evening from nearly every with slight loss.
patient who is now under treatment, Gen. Jeffreys reports that he has
and these were all to the effect that arranged an armistice of two days to
the cases are doing well and that no enable the tribesmen to submit, which
patient is in any immediate danger of they appear anxious to do after the
dissolution. Some forty cases were repeated beatings they have received.
reported last night as being on the Spies report that the Afridis, and
mend, and a number of them will be Orakzais of the Tirah country, at a
discharged during the week. One of council held at Bagh, have decided to
the most dangerous cases that has resist the British advance. They
appeared was discharged yesterday, have sent a message to Cholam Hyder
It was that on Madison street in the Khan, the ameer's frontier general,
neighborhood of the French market, asking him to help them.
where the conditions were considered Advices from the Samana district
to be such as to warrant the fear that are favorable. The defeats suffered
the disease would spread. Unusual by the enemy in their attacks on Fort
precautions, however, were taken by Gulistan and Fort Lockhart have disthe
authorities to quarantine the case heartened the Alikehls and other
and improve the sanitary conditions Orakzais in the Khanki valley. They
of the neighborhood, .and the fever in have sent a message to the commander
that vacinity seems to have been at Fort Gulistan offering to makestamped out completely. At the Oakland
Park detention camp all the refugees
who have been given quarters
were declared to be well, no sickness
having yet appeared in the camp.
Yesterday's record: E. Toma, 1206
St. Andrews street; G. G. McHardy,
Pine and Maple; A. Goldman, 2227
Baronne; Lou Lawyor, 908 Second;
Michael Dwyer, 621 First; James
Gray, 528 Esplanade; Percy and Susie
Mattson, 2411 COnstance; -- Bronson,
1126 Treme;Andrew and Miss
Pizzo, a servant at 1291 Poydras; Arthur
J. Blake, 2013 Camp; Emma
Schlosscher, Baronne and Poydras;
Mrs. W. H. Williams, 1558 Camp.
The new cases are, as usual, scattered.
The most prominent among them
are Mr. McHardy, a wealthy insurance
man, and Mrs. Williams, wife, of Gen.
W. H. Williams, a well known newspaper
man. There are four cases'in the
Williams family, but they are all reported to be doing well.
E. Toma is the brother of the man
who died last week and lives in the
same premises. A number of childrenare among the new cases.
Edwards, Miss., Sept. 27.-There was
one death from yellow fever yesterday,
that of Mr. S. S. Noblin.
The following cases are repored: S.
White, Mrs. Levy, Mary Sagler, Mrs.
Drumgood, Mr. Duke Askew, Caroline
Brown, Mrs Sadie Martin, Lee Martin,
Estis Hardy, Eva Warren, Ethel Grister,
Mr. Wililam Champion, Mrs. S. A.
Harris, Mrs. J. B. Graves, Mrs. J. B.terms of submission and promising to
surrender all the loots and government
rifles. It is believed they will surrender
on any terms.
'According to a telegram from Pshawaur
small bodies of Afridis were seen
Friday night near the mouth of Khybar
Pass. Three hussar officers who
were driving from Pshawaur to Jamrud
were fired at by men hiding in the
rocks less than a mile from camp.
They had a narorw escape, and their
coachman was killed.
RECORD BROKEN.
A North German Lloyd Steamer's Quick
Time
New York, Sept. 27-The steamer
'Wilhelm der Grosse, the latest acquisition
to the large fleet of the North
German Lloyd steamship company,
arrived last night at 10 o'clock at quarantine
on her maiden voyage, making
the passage from Southampton to New
York in five days, 22 hours and 45
minutes, the fastest voyage on record.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse is
648 feet long, 66 feet beam, and 43 feet
deep; is of 14,000 tons burden and
30,000 horse power. On this voyage,
with a steam pressure of 186 pounds
and seventy-seven revolutions of her
screws, she developed a speed - of
twenty-two knots. She was built at
Stettin, Germany, by the Vulcan SiITff"1
and Engine Ship Building company.
She is schooner-rigged, has four funGravitt, Mr. C. B.Barber, little daugh- nels and twin screws. Her engines
ter of Boxtell are of the triple expansion pattern.
Colored-Alfred Beard, Willie Brown, On a consumption of 500 tons of coal
Ani.ie Maxie, Rosa Sweeger, Sallie per day, she developed the speed of
Thomas. twenty-two knots 'per hour. She' is
New cases yesterday 23, total cases commanded by Capt. H. Enlebart.
to date 176; deaths for the day 1, total
deaths to date 7. New Gold Mine.
A new case developed at Champion Seattle, Wash., Sept. 27.-The first
Hill, that of Dr. Wm. M. Champion, authentic news concerning Washingand
the case is a serious one. Another ton's new Eldorado, near Mount Baker,
case is reported at Queens Hill. Both is brought to Seattle. by E. W. Saporare
isolated. A few more strides and tes, president of the information and
the fever will have stricken the entire registry, who, with Frank Craydo and
town of Edwards. Mr. Ethel C. Rister, Gus Wagner, experienced miners of
our old druggist, was taken yesterday Dawson City, went to the scene of the
morning and Dr. Hunter of the state latest excitement last Saturday.
board was wired for. Only three or According to Mr. Saportas the route
four cases are considered serious and is passable and not very difficult until
thse are receiving the best of atten- within five miles of the find. The last
tion from the physicians and experi- five miles, however, present obstacles
enced nurses. that would forever discourage any one
Among those taken with the disease not an experienced prospector and
are C. R. Barber, merchant, railroad mountaineer.
agent and representative of the Associ- "I met many men," said Mr. SaporLted
press and one of the wealthiest tas, "who came from Mount Tomohoy
nen of Edwards. Some days ago Mr. (Tom Boy), and they all reiterated the
Barber advised the Jackson office of stories concerning the great strike of
he Associated Press that he feared he $1900 to the ton made in Bear mounwa.s
taking the disease, but that it ta Tomohoy (Tom Boy), and sevwas
his intention to send the newas tain in Tomenhy (Tom Boy), and sevwas
intentions to send the news as eral others have found ore equal to the
ong as possible. discovery in Bear mountain "
Mr. Fred Johnson, an immune oper- co ne
tor from Tallulah, La., had been sent Summas as follows
o take the place of Mr. Barber, should is ovaries in the mounhis
become necessary, and he went on T o Wa o out ae on
.uty yesterday. tarns of Whatcom county are beyond
iuty yesterday. any doubt the richest of the annals ofanywhere in the norti or west. ue.e --- . .A- .... - a, v ,,c R. *irtiae K Ireland Sunk. .- Sv , o- even in AlasKa.
all-purpose horse, the fleet-footed trot- Class 89. Mules. complished York, t. 27.-The four- So ay the most experienced prospectter
and the flying thoroughbred all THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28. New York, -Sept. G .die four st ae nd t
:had their admirers, and Texas breed- Class 90. Cleveland Bays. C,rbett-Fitzsimmons Fight. lasted schooner Goodwin Stomfaard e just finds"
'er soon demonstrated that we could lass 1 SaFred Hr. arrived In port yesterday from Fer- the scene of the recent finds."
rears, train and have on s wood horses as ass 91. Saddle Horses. Mr. Dan Stuart, of Dallas, is presi-ported a severe The re t find s in Bald mountain,
'rear, train and have as goodentof theNeweorkscompan hes a C
iany country between the two oceans.the New any which furte it tes
"You ask me why I make this broad Class 93. Shetland Ponies. makes the veriscope exhibit of the experience during the hurricane which s. I
-assertion Well, let us review the re-- flight. He has secured a conspicuous prevailed off the southern coast during Whatcom county, northeast of Mount
eh suits and see if this is drawing it too Woodmen's Celebration. location in the grounds of the Texas the past week. On Sept. 18 Nils Baker. The mineral range runs north- -
storongly. It was a Texas filled, Katime Xhat Secretary Fraser, head clerk State Fair, and has arranged to place Svendsen, one of the crew, a Nor- west and southeast, and is located for
Pease, that first run five furlongs in"C" Woodmen of the World, predicts there the veriscope used for this pur- , fell from the spanker masthead thirty miles. There is no telling howsixty
seconds over the Dallas track- will be "the biggest' log-rolling in the pose in New York, where it was ope-ther it extend
two heats. The fastest half mile threehistory of the order," will be hed atrated to crowded houses. The pride to the deck and. was istantly kill much further it extend
heat race on record was won bythe State Fair Grounds, Monday, Oct. Mr. Stuart takes in his als citizen- On the 22d the schooner Katie K. IreEclipse,
Jr., a Texas horse, he taking 18. Therewill be a big parade, withship is a guaranty tat no pains or ex- land was sighted, flying a distress
Eclipse Jr., a TexashorseLHung Chaff is amazed 'tto find
the first and third heats in forty- floats, a special concert at music hall, pense will be' spared to give visitorssignal. She was sinking, and had losttat the r of t
-eight seconds, while -Miss Redmond and addresses by Woodmen of national to the State Fair a chance to witness all her boats The Stoddard took offn nea ofh
'took the second heat in the same time reputation. At night the Woodmen's a full and acuratV reproduction of the posess a alac in each of the
- over the Dallas track in 1890. The play, "Tallahankle, or Our Kintryfamous fight, of which he was the pro-the crew f e Irean. large cities of the country. Yet Ameri-:;
'Texas Mabel ran on every important Kisin Jining the Woodmen," will be moter and manager can are disposed to regard the job. of
- - trak between the Gulf and the lakes rendered. Invitations have been sentrulin thisountry as a good thng asor
several years, and beat the bestto the craft throughout the state to. A fine herd .of Shetland ponies will dentally at Comanche, I. T., the other could be seen many other poisoaou
- :': 'orses everywhere, while her time of participate in the celebration. delight the little folks. day. It S.-New York Press.
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