The Legal Tender. (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 45, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 3, 1898 Page: 1 of 13
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NO. 45,
SANGER, TEXAS, SEPT. 3, 1898,
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Probable C»u»e.
Washington, Aug. 30.—The extraor-
dinary circular note directed by the
Russian foreign minister to the mem-
bers of the diplomatic body at St. Pe-
tersburg has attracted the earnest at-
tention of the officials here. It is sup-
posed from the terms of the note that
is published that the copy is directed
to Mr. Hitchcock, the United Slates
ambassador at the Russian court, but
so far nothing has been heard by cable
from him to that effect.
It is believed here that the victory
achieved by the United States in the
late war-was a contributing factor in
the preparation of the note. It is sur-
mised that that victory made it clear
at once to the European statesmen
that to maintain the balance of power
they would be obliged to redouble
their expenditures on account of the
army and navy, else they might be
outstripped by the United States.
The official mind here looks upon
the Russian project for a general dis-
armament. as Utopian at this time, and
while any statement as to the attitude
of the United States towards such a
conference as that proposed is purely
conjectural in advance of the receipt
of the invitation, the impression pre- j
vails that our government would not1
care to take any active part in its de-
liberations.
Turning Point In History.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 30.—The news-
papers here declare that the czar s j
manifesto will constitute a turning- j
point in history.
The Novostilli: It stands to reason
that the disarmament question can not
be solved without a previous removal
of the causes for the armament.
Not Given Five Years. v.
Washington, Aug. 30.—Capt. I\ '•
C. Duncan, surgeon of the twenty-a
ond Kansas regiment., Is held by the
sheriff of Fairfax county, Va., to ans-
wer an indictment charging him with
desecrating Confederate graves at Bull
Run, near Manassas.
It appears that Dr. Duncan, whose
case has now become famous, was not
sentenced to five years' Imprisonment,
as reported from Camp Meade, Pa., but
escaped much more lightly at the
hands of the military court, there being
a lack of evidence to prove that he
actually took part in despoiling the
graves.
On the first specification, that of
having participated in the desecration
he was acquitted, but on tho second
specification, that of conduct prejudi-
cial to good order and discipline, the
court found him guilty.
The finding of the court-martial, ap-
proved by Gen. Davis, was that Sur-
geon Duncan be deprived of his rank
for t'vo months, be confined to regi-
mental camp and forfeit half his pay
for the same length of time and that he
be reprimanded by the commanding
general.
How Dr. Duncan is to be confined
to regimental camp for months when
he is now the prisoner of the sheriff
of Fairfax county is difficult to under-
stand.
War Claims Filed.
Washington, Aug. 30.—Already sev-
eral of the states haw filed with the
secretary of the treasury claims for
reombursement of expenditures grow-
ing out of the war. Auditor Brawn of
The ^e treasury department in speaking
confer&nee must accurately determine
the respective pretensions of the na-
tions and propose means for a peace- j
ful arrangement, and it may come to [
pass that at the close of the nineteenth
century a liquidation may be effected
of the international policies which are
so prolific in troubles and dangers.
The Novoe Vremya says: All true
friends of peace are naturally on the
side of Russia, but it is impossible to
guarantee that some of the western
cabinets will not raise objections, pro-
moted by the fact that the armed peace
which has existed since 187], is the
main source of their international
strength.
Sviet says-: If all the powers accept
Russia's proposal with the same ear-
nestness with which it was made the
dawn of the twentieth century will see
the idea of universal peace triumphant
over that of unrest and discord.
The Viedomosti expresses tlia opin-
ion that the note of the czar is essen-
tially ' an attempt to introduce the
element of trust into international re-
lations," adding: "Whoever believes
in the creative power of ideas pro-
pounded with conviction and clear-
ness mutt rejoice that the note brings
a new and beneficent course nito the
world's life and groups anew the par-
ticipants in that life."
Relations Strained.
London. Aug. 30.—A Hong Kong cor-
respondent says:
The relations between the Americans
and the Philippinos are much strained
in consequence of a collision at Ca-
\ite last Wednesday. Insurgents at Ca-
vite have been ordered to evacuate the
place and remove troops two miles in
the country in order to prevent fur-
ther disorders.
Gen. Aguinaldo says his chief pur-
pose in maintaining his army near the
city was to be prepared to cope with
Spain in ease America left Manila to
Spanish control.
Conduct Admirable.
London, Aug. 30 —A Manila corre-
spondent says:
The leading men here have signed
a memorial to I.ord Salisbury urging
him to use his offices to prevent the
Spaniards from regaining supremacy
in the Philippines.
The conduct of the American troops
is admirable. The town, since their
occupation, has been wonderfully free
from disturbance. Gen. Greene has
of these claims said:
"There seems to be tv misapprehen-
sion on the part of some of the claim-
ants. Creditors can not present their
accounts direct to the war department.
The law provides that all accounts
must be paid by theh states and the
general government, will reimburse the
states.
"The principal delay likely to be oc-
ca- sioned in the settlement of the
claims arises from the failure in some
cases to properly receipt the bills and
have them approved by the governor.
When the vouchers are presented in
proper shape this office will pass upon
them promptly."
Goes to Porto Kiro.
Washington, Aug. 30.—Ail order was
issued at the navy department yester-
day detaching Rear Admiral W. S.
Schley from the command of the sec-
ond squadron of the North Atlantic
fleet, ordering him to Porto Rico as a
member of the evacuating commission,
during which time he is authorized to
fly his flag on the cruiser New Orleans,
which will remain in those waters un-
til the commission is ready to return
to the United States. Admiral Schley
will be accompanied to Porto Rico by
the following members of his staff now
attached to the cruiser Brooklyn at
New York Lieut. .T. P. Sears, Liaut.
B. W. Wells, Jr., and Ensign Edward
McSauley, Jr.
Ordered Mattered Out.
Washington, Aug. 30.—The follow-
ing troons have been mustered out:
Ninth Massachusetts, from Middle-
town, Pa., to South Framingham,
Mass., where they will be mustered
out; seventh Illinois, from Middle-
town to Springfield; first Illinois,
Lexington. ., to Springfield; fifth Illi-
nois, Lexington, Ky., to Springfield;
sixty-fifth New York, from Camp Al-
ger to Buffalo; fifth Ohio, infantry,
from Fernandina, Fla.. to Columbus,
O.; first Wisconsin, from Jacksonvillo
to Camp Douglass, Wis.; second vol-
unteers cavalry (Grigsby) at Chicka-
mauga; fourth Texas, at Austin, Tex.
Favor* Peace.
London, Aug. 29.—The czar of Rus-
sia in a communication which he or-
dered Count Muravleff, his foreign
minister, to hand the foreign diplo-
mats at St. Petersburg, favors a con-
ference to secure lasting peace. The
text Is as follows:
"The maintenance of a general peace
and the possible reduction of the ex-
cessive armaments which weigh upon
all nations present themselves In ex-
isting conditions to the whole world
as an ideal toward which the endeav-
ors of all governments should be di-
rected. The humanitarian and mag-
animous ideas of his majesty, the em-
peror, my august master, have been
won over to this view in the conviction
that this lofty aim is in conformity
with tSie roost essential Interests and
legitimate views of all the powers,
and the imperial government thinks
the present moment would be very fa-
vorable to seeking the means.
"International discussion is the most
effectual means of insuring all people
benefit—a real durable peace above all
putting an end to the progressive de-
velopment of the present armaments.
"In the course of tho last twenty
years the longing for general appease-
ment has grown very pronounced in
the intercourse of civilized nations,
and the preservation of peace has been
put forward as an object of interna-
tional policy. It is in its name that
great states have concluded among
themselves powerful alliances.
each
New Horse Disease.
Guthrie, Ok., Aug. 30—Farmers In
the western part of this county and in
Kingfisher county have applied to the
territorial live stock sanitary board for
assistance in staming out a peAliar
new disease which is killing a large
number of their horses. Nobody has
yet been able to tell the nature of the
disease or successfully prescribe for It,
President Will Tlsit Omaha.
A special telegram from Wf sliingtoi
says: President McKinley informally
accepted the ihvitatlon extended
through Manager Rosewater to attend
the Trans-Mississippi Exposition dur-
ing Peace Jubilee wee. Oct. 10. Man-
ager Rosewater, accompanied by As-
sistant Secretary of War Meikeljohn,
was shown into the Library room. Tlia
president was at his desk,looking some-
what careworn, although he appeared
quite cheerful. The conversation nat-
urally drifted from the war to the
president's much needed and well
earned vacation, which the president
said could not begin before October
1, when the peace commission is ex-
pected to enter upon its work In Paris.
After hearing Mr. Rosewater's earn-
est appeal, the president said: "You
may say to vour people that I accept
the invitation and unless something
unforseen happens, I shall visit Oma-
ha early in October. It seems to me
proper that a president who has con-
cluded a successful war should mani-
fest his appreciation of the a<hieve-
ments and arts of peace as illustrated
by the Trans-Mississippi Exposition,
but let me say right here tnat I am
not going to Omaha to make a speech.
I need rest and I want to be comfort-
able."
'We will try to make you comforta-
ble, Mr. President," exclaimed Mr.
Rosewater.
"That is what I need, and remember
I am not going to prepare speeches
and I want no addresses delivered to
also
"It is the better to guard
though they have developed in propor- me."
tion hitherto unprecedented in their j "The Chicago people,"
miSitary forces and still continue to
increase them without shrinking from
any sacrifice.
"Nevertheless all these effoi ts have
not yet been able to bring about the ; anl going to Omaha,
beneficent result In the desired pacifi-
cation.
"The financial changes following the
upward march strike at the very root
of public prosperity. The intellectual
said Mr.
preparing a
Rosewater, "are
demonstration."
"Let the Chicago people do what
they like. I will take a vacation; I
VALUE OF THE EVENING PAPER
Maw. Cornea When Bu«lnesi Hen H»n
Time to Enjoy It.
The value of the evening newspaper
is not exhausted when it has given the
news of the hour, or has helped the
business man over the tedium of travel
from his office to his home, says the
Boston Transcript. Copies ar« seldom
found littering the seats of steam or
electric cars, as it is taken to the
household for perusal by the whole
family. Of course the evening is the
time when it can be most thoroughly
read and discussed. Moreover, so rapid
has become every medium of intelli-
gence from world's end to world's end
that the evening paper is more favor-
ably circumstanced than its morning
contemporaries for keeping pace with
the genuine news of each day. The
facilities for extracting the best es-
sence of the world's history for the
day and the world's thought upon pass-
ing events have been brought to such
a high state of development that it is
enabled to keep even pace with daily
events, furnishing a brief resume of
such morning news "as may have been
expanded by other sheets beyond real
value and keeping the record clear and
unbroken. When it takes its readers
into its confidence it is at a time when
the cares and worries of business
have been put aside for the day, or if
not it helps to put them aside and
enables the reader to keep in leisurely
touch, not only with the current news,
but With art and literature and those
other larger and deeper interests of
life for which most busy people have
small inclination as they are about to
plunge into the work of the day.
l'eary Expedition.
St. Johns, N. F„ Aug. 29.—The
steamer Hope has arrived here from
ul „»„Uv her trip to Greenland, whither she car-
and physical strength of the nation's rjecj the Peary exploring expedition,
labor and capital are mostly diverted At Foulke fiord the Hope parted with
from their natural application and are j Lieut. Peary and sailed south on the
unproductively consumed. Hundreds , 13th instant, the Windward exploring
of millions are devoted to acquiring j party's ship leaving at the same time
terrible engines of destruction, which for sheard Osborne fiord, where Peary
thought to-day regarded as the last wjn make his headquarters during tho
work of science, are destined to-mor-
row to lose all their value in conse-
quence of some new discovery in the
same field. National culture, econo-
mic, progressive, and the production
of wealth are either paralyzed or
winter. Sixty dogs and ten Esqui-
maux men and women were taken
north. Capt. Barrett reports all well.
The Baltimore Klagxhtp.
oi „Cn.iLu , . Manila, Aug. 29.—Steamers are un-
checked in development. Moreover, in tering the river as usual. The Amer-
been ordered to return to Washington. atsfafAe„or successiuuy prescrme .o
lie wi11 sail with Gen. MerritL land 100 or more horses have died.
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proportion as the armaments of each icans are temporarily maintaining the
power increase they less and less ful- former Spanish territory. Business U
fill the objects the governments have brisk.
set before themselves. | The United States steamships Olym-
• The economic crisis, due in great pia and Raleigh have gone to Hong
part to the system of armaments, Kong to go into dock. Admiral Dewey
l'outrance and the continual danger has transferred his flag to the Balti-
wbich lies in this massing of war ma- J more.
terial are transforming the armed j Gen. Merritt sails on the steamer
peace of our days into a crushing bur- China for Paris to attend the sessions
den which the people have more and j of the peace conference.
more difficulty in bearing.
Hauling Melted Iron.
Stealing a red-hot stove has hereto-
fore been supposed to be a feat im-
possible to the boldest burglar. It
would probably, however, present but
small difficulty to the Pennsylvania
Yankee, as he has taken to hauling
melted iron around the country to save
the expense of melting it twice for J»i"
purpose. "A mechanical and econon\J?| ,
ical triumph reported from Pennsyl-
vania," it is noted, "is the daily ship-
ment of tons of molten iron by railway
from the blast furnaces at Duquesne to
the Homestead steel works. This re-
markable service was instituted on
June 1, and is now an ordinary daily
routine. The molten iron, as it is
tapped from the furnace, runs into an
immense mixing ladle, having a capa-
city of 250 tons, and from this it is
poured into the 20-ton ladle cars, the
ladles being made of sheet steel or
iron, with a lining of refractory mate-
rial. The cars are then hauled by a
locomotive to the steel works, where
the direct conversion of the molten
iron into open hearth steel is made,
avoiding all the expense of casting the
metal Into pigs and cooling, handling,
reloading, reheating and remelting the
pig metal. It Is stated In the Iron Age
that between 700 and 800 tons of iron
are transported dally from the Du-
quesne furnaces in this manner.—Char«
leston News and Courier.
'It appears evident that if this state
of things were to be prolonged It would
inevitably load to the very cataclysm H
is deslted to avert and the horrors
whereof make every thinking being
shudder in advance.
From Madrid.
Madrid, Aug. 29.—Duke Almouovaar
de Rio, minister of foreign affairs, and
Senor Gamazo, minister of public in-
struction and public works, have ar-
rived at an agreement as to how to
Va"Cf- „ inrwssant i Instruct the Antilles evacuation som
"To an end to these incessant ^ and the lnstructiona were
armaments and to seek the mean, of vpsterdav.
warding off the cr.lamlty which is
threatening the whole world—such is
tho supreme duty to-day Imposed upon
all states.
"Filled with this idea, his majesty
has been pleased to command me to
propose to all the governments whose
representatives are accredited to the
imperial court the assembling of a con- j
ference which shall occupy itself with
this grave problem.
mailed yesterday.
Gen. Correa, minister of war, has
informed the queen regent of the ar-
rival of the transport Isla de Luzon
at Vico and the Montserrat at Corun-
na with troops returning from Cuba,
Forty-two deaths occurred on the
steamers.
Inclined to Sneer.
Berlin. Aug. 29 —The czar's note *a»
us gra>c jnww*v>M. | posted in the hotels and cafes jester
"This conference will be, by the help dajr afternoon and is generally discuss-
of God, a happy presage of the century eJ ratber cynically. A high official
which is about to open. It would con- I Q. the waT 0ffl0e observed that It
verge into one powerful focus the ef- wollj,j be "a good topic for a dull sc*-
forts of all states sincerely seeking to 1 son If tbe conference met there was
make the great conception of universal no doubt thit France would demand
peace triumph over the elements of tjje return of Alsaee-Loraine." All
trouble and discord and it would at the politicians are inclined to i-neer at
rame time cement their agreement by
a corporate consecration of the prin-
ciples of equity and right whereon rest
the security of states and the welfare
of peoples."
Helping Bankrupts to Begin Afresh.
The bill which became a law in the
closing hours of Congress was a com-
promise on the Nelson bill in the Sen-
ate, and the Torrey bill in the House.
It is the result of an agitation among
business men of more than fifteen
years' duration. The bill is quite lib-
eral in its provisions, especially on the
terms of discharge. It is confidently
believed that this legislation will en-
able from 150,000 to 200,000 bankrupts
to fully re-establish themselves.
Furthermore, it will enable manufac-
turers and merchants to secure a fair
division of their debtors' property, and
go a long way toward preventing em-
| bezzlement, fraud, and useless waste
of valuable property. It will be of
great assistance to the bankrupt who,
though honest, has been forced to the
wall.
Good Advice.
You must (lave a heap of embere to
make a glowing fire. Scatter them
apart, and they become dim and cold.
So, to have a brisk, vigorous life, you
must have a group of lives, to keep
each other warm as it were, to afford to
each other mutual encouragement and
confidence and support. If you wish to
live the life of a man, and not that of
a fungus, be social, be brotherly, be
charitable, by sympathetic and labor
earnestly for the good of your kinik
such a proposal amanating from Rus-
sia
Capt. Duncan, charged with desecra-
was sentenced t» five years' iuiprisou-
i ment.
Becoming Converted.
He—Do you believe there is anything
in the theory that one becomes what
one eats? She—Well, ves. I'm begin-
ning to believe that there is. I have
noticed that you seem to be particu-
larly fond of siiuask.—Cleveia®*
Leader,
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