Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1898 Page: 4 of 4
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■ heard it. If you'd backed down, you time, it might after all be a clever and
might have heard somethin drop, but daring game of bluff, and so it would
as you didn't I'm free to say that I've be as well to take precautions.
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By GEORGE GRIFFITH.
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diamond dog, under the skin of which
gems were smuggled from the mine,
s should remain a secret for very long.
to the illicit diamond buyers every de-
tail of it as it gradually leaked out was
j. u #sweet morsel under the tongue, and
too much respect fur your honorable de-
partment to think of removiu its re-
speeted chief to another and may be
iess congenial sphere cn account of an
tCopyright. 1898, by the Author.J
- the nature of the case it was quite honestly expressed opinion—not mp,
of the question that the story of the sir °°’ now> G. an^ name the poi-
- *-*-’• -.....1 son. Will you join us, gentlemen?"
= Tlio crowd joined as one man, and
under the circumstances the inspector
could do nothing less than come in with
them, but for all that he felt a trifle
puzzled, though he took care not to
to many more honest enemies of the ! ; 11 - *;:
new compound system, mostly trades
After that the conversation became
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men and canteen keepers, it was far too ; §ene.™^ nm* perfectly amicable, albeit
dwelling mainly on the somewhat tic-
klish subject which possessed the chief
interest for every one present, but as
drinks multipled and lies got more com-
plicated the inspector began to grow
taciturn. Liquor has that effect on some
natures, and his was possibly one of
them.
At last the Yankee rallied him, quite
good humoredly, on his lack of festivity,
but rather unfortunatly, as it seemed
to tho company, dragged in something
about shortage on mine returns. That
was too much for the inspector, and his
long bottled up wrath suddenly flared
out. a
‘‘Shortage, confound itl You’re a
nice one to talk about shortage, Mr.
Salter. You know as well as I do that
there’s about .£15,000 short of the
month’s average on De Beers and Kim-
berley returns, and you know a big
sight better than I do where the stones
have gone to. But we’U have you yet.
You’re wide and you ’re deep, but you’re
not quite the cleverst man on earth,
and when we do get you”—
“Well, why’-u thunder don’t you,
boss?” the Yankee laughed, with still
undisturbed humor. “Say, now, I’ll
give you a pointer, as them sneaks of
yours don’t seem to have got on to it
yet. I’m gem across to Freetown some
time between now and Sunday on a lit-
tle private buSSaeksofitfy own. S’pos'e, 1
now, I was takin that bit of shortage
with me, what’ll yota lay against me
gettin it through?”
“Tot years on the breakwater,”
snapped the inspector as he emptied his'
glass and set it down with a hang on
- the counter.- : ‘ > •-*>*'“■*
„ “No, , you don’t, ” laughed Salter.
“Tbat’tffor me tolay. Now, look here,
Ptl lay you ten years dn the breakwater
, tfe £l;<100—that’s only £1 dOa year, and
I tlhi»k»my time’s a darned sight more
valuable than that, so I’m givin you
big odds—that I’ll take that little lot
through for a 11,you can do to stop me.”
As he .spoke he suddenly pulled his
left hand out of his trousers pocket and
bohj IF out’to tM inspector with the
palm fUlk of rough diamonds.
* Lipinski fairly gaped at 'the heap of
glittering stones, but he lost neither his
igjippt . .
acceptable a story either to be kept
dark or to be allowed to lose anything
in the retelling.
Added to this, the tragedy in which
it had (fulminated had lent a piquancy
to its flavor which sufficiently stimu-
*r lated the palate of Kimberley society to
mt it longing for more, and so, little by
Httle, it filtered through tho barriers of
official reticenco until at last a fitting
finish was given to the story by the con-
fession of Chief Detective Inspector
' lipinski one night in the smoking
room of the club that that day’s mail
had brought him a brief note, written
V . by one Loo Cbai, presumably a former
resident of that’ name in Delagoa Bay,
requesting that an inclosed acceptance
^ for £230, drawn in his favor by the late
Mr. Augustus Lowenfeldt, might bo
caused by that gentleman’s executors,
and the amount, less 10 pier cent com-
mission for his (the inspector’s)trouble,
forwarded at his convenience to 9 Ma-
* lay « street, Singapore. The note con-
cluded by stating that tho £250 was a
balance due from Mr. Lowenfeldt on
the purchase of a certain dog of the es-
timated value of £11,000.
* Despite the fact that not a few of
those who heard the note read out and
looked at the acceptance as it was
*■ banded round had lost some proportion
* of that £11,000, the irony of the note
and the delicate humor of the address
given—Malay street, Singapore, having
morning all Kimberley was enjoying
the heathen’s parting joke.
That night a lltdy variety vocalist at
s the Theater Royal sent her audience into
prolonged and vociferous raptures by
(nuging the then famous patter song,
u Vant to Puy a
ate local allusions,
>y proceeded to im-
prove the occasion in its own Way.
“No Dogs Admitted” was found
.painted in large black letters across the
Altogether it was an interesting situ
ation, especially for the inspector. If he
caught Salter with nothing but the
schlenters on him, he would be the
laughing stock of the cauip, and if he
letbini go through with something like
a £15,000 packet of diamonds—which
he felt perfectly certain he had planted
somewhere—his reputation would be
ruined and his dismissal certain. It was
a desperate game, and Inspector Lipinski
was prepared to take desperate measures
to win.
[TO BE CONTIXrED.J
dependent, on tho prosperity of
fill' farmer”—D:SOl1*S’Oh led b>
Onl, E S. Peters, of-O-i* ver: ;*o<i
R. K. Erwin of W»xVto*«l>ie,
“ Discussinu of any subject of j
interest or importance to the live Ely S CfSalii wSlHI ^
stock iudustry of the state.”
Ask your
Druggist
for a generous
10 CENT
TRIAL SIZE.
CATARRI
TEXAS LIVE STOCK ASSO-
CIATION.
l tcKthe Dp Beers com-
p:;
■■ a small
■ to the chief inspector “to be paid for on
delivoy^’ Printed notices were stuck
up ip conspicuous parts Of the town to
toe effect Chat in future ail dogs euter-
i her ley would have
dSli^SjfSSSi
icted the worthy in-
s with some-
de*'
enough in its
set to
darker
re hitherto
^iLow-
llfnl I. D. B.
afCldf. His
l were
t.i“\b^Jiard8
ssrc,
[ thfigp comnar-
he did not do
iy;«eoonnt
tive
1 he had
mw*
i Queen’s
icones c
would
o tune
proxy, to
over the
so ar
the cir
would
he had
aa the inspector
: the above statement,
verbal frillings of swindling the new chums mid green-
i produced here, by
I the in-
1 saw at
situa-
a royal
to have a
But,
at of the
strolled
c his place
■ and
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i no one's
horns who were making their first es?
[’ says in L D. B.
Lipinski saw that he had “done him
a toot in the eye, ” as the camp vernac-
ular had it, and put up his revolver
[with what grace he could. The Yankee
took hisditUe triumph very quietly and
a toed the. young lady behind the bar to
oblige him with a sheet of note paper
and an envelope. Then be wrapped up
j the false stones, put them into the en-
velope, stock it down and asked tho in-
spector to write his name across the
flap, which be did, with a peculiar
*Stt!anSGMG>r «.*>
Salter as he put'the packet in his
pocket. “Now let’s tafeo another drink
on it and then go home. It’s gettin
late, and I’ve got to pack. There’s no
knowin how soon I might have to
Sturt99 *
The glasses were filled again, and the
The
i irresistible, and
the inspect
»to show the
SO here-
I I&Otit
cfc-
rt I
dog
-As to
as I say, I
i just now when
words
them, In-
ben. Seth
SJtS
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But, no;
even mow
;~S
o others, but it
and there was
.JSlSStSi
to say it
ir opinion
BOW I re
'•That piuff won’t work, Mr. Snllcr. ”
presence of mind nor his professional
promptitude. Like lightning a revolver
jumped Out of his Ccat pocket, and as
he covered the Yankee’s heart with the
muzzle he said sharply:
“That bluff won’t work, Mr. Salter.
-Btt-see yohr hand, for £1,000 now. If
you don’t want a sadden death in yonr
family, come along to the office and ac-
count for the possession of those dia-
monds.” {
To the added amazement of e very one
in the room, Seth Salter burst into a
loud laugh and said, without moving
out of the line of fire: * 1 ■{ i J
“Waal, boss, I did thifiklylu had a
better eye for klips than thrft. D’you
fancy I’d be such an almighty sucker as
tor^good Lord, man, can’t you see
they’re all schlenters? There’s no law
against carryiu them round, I reckon.
There’s plenty of good judges in the
room to help you. ”
A very brief examination satisfied the
disgusted inspector that the astute Yan-
kee had once more turned the laugh
against him. The things were schlen-
ter*, or “snide diamonds”—imita-
tions made of glass treated with fluoric
acid to give them the peculiar frosted
appearance of the real rough stones—
which were used chiefly for tho purpose
they had been tho best of friends in-
stead of, as they were now, hunter and
quarry in a chase to the death.
The next day Seth Salter openly hired
a Cape cart and team of four horses to
teke him to Bloemfontein, which is
80 miles byroad from Kimberley,
« and when Ike bargain was struck ho
privately informed the driver, an off
colored Cape boy who had made more
than one run of the kind, that if lie
would start at midnight instead of mid-
day and go via Freetown instead of
Bosboff he should have £100 for that
part of tho journey alone, which was
■irot a bad fare for a drive of less than
ah hour. The boy jumped at the offer
apd within a couple of hours bad ac-
cepted one of twice the amount, with
half cash down, from Inspector Lipin-
ski to pull up at a certain spot about
400 yards from tho Free State border.
That afternoon Salter and Lipinski
mot, as if by chance, in the private bar
of the Central, bad a whisky and soda
together and talked over the journey
Eighth Annual Meeting to
be Held in Galveston.
To the members of the Texas
Live Stock Association and
all persons directly or indirectly
interested in the growing, feeding
and marketing of live stock
You are cordially invited to at-
tend the eighth annual meeting of
the Texas Live Stock Association
to be held in the city of Gtlves-
ton, Texas, January 3 7tb, 18th and
19tb, 1899; Business of great im-
portance to every member of the
association and all those interest-
ed in the various branches of the
live stock industry in Texas and
the Southwest will be brought op
for discussion. The legislature
of the State of Texas will be in
session and the views of the con-
vention as crystalized in the form
of resolutions and requests, will
bfi laid before that" body and will
doubtless have some weight with
fbe members thereof. There are
several live questions of vital im-
p#rtince to the live stock ’Indus
try wfalfih should be tbofoiighly
dismissed at this convention. Val-
nable papers and addresses on
subjects pertaining to live stock
‘husbandry and agriculfnre will be
presented by those competent to
disease them. The citizens of
Galvpston are making great pr»*p
* rat ions looking to the comfort
and .ehttotainment of all delegatee
and visitors to the convention.
Fbe railroads of the state have
practically given us the assurance
that an extraordinary low rate of
not to exceed live dollars for the
round trip will be in force From
any point- in the Btate. The rate
(from Dear by points will be pro-
portionately low.
The following programme was
adopted at a recent meeting of
the executive committee of the
association: *
Convention called to order at 10
a. m. Tuesday, January 17, J899.
Invocation.
Official, welcome by Hun, A. W.
Fly, mayor of Galveston.
Address of welcome on behalf
of local stockmen.
Response on behalf of the Tex-
as Live Stock Association by Hon.
A. S. Reed, Fort Worth.
President’s annual message.
Report of secretary^ and treas-
urer."
Reports of standing committees
New business, resolutions, etc
SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION.
“ Exportation of live stoek from
Texas ports”—Discussion led by
C. H. McMaster, Galveston, and
Hon. A. S. Reed, Fort Worth.
“ Is the tick the sole carrier of
splenetic fever”—Discussion to
be led by Oapt. Jno. Tod, Corpus
Ohristi, Hon. R. J. Kleberg of
Alice, Dr. M. Francis, College
Station, Dr. L. D. LeGear, Anstin.
“The Cuban cattle trade—wbat
can "Texas do to foster it”—Dis-
cussion to be led by Col. Ike T.
Pryor, San Antonio.
“ Recent dipping experiments at
Fort Worth—Ar4 these expert
ments satisfactory and concln
sivet”—Discussion led by Col.
W. E. Skinner, of Fort Worth.
“The best methods of success-
ful breeding for beef Discus-
sion led by J. F. Green, of Ener-
nal.
“Cattle feeding experiments at
Texas A. and M. College, and es-
pecially feeding experiments as
now being conducted there at the
suggestion of the Texas Live
Stock Association ”—Discussion
led by Prof. J. H. Connell, College
Station, Marion Sansom, Alvarado.
“The sheep industry—past and
present conditions.”—Discussion
led by Cob W. L. Black, Ft. Me-
Kavitt and Judge C. W. Staudart
of Staudart.
The live stcck indastry largely
The subjects for discussion are
all live questions and every mem-
ber of the Association, as well as
every person attending the.con-
vention is earnestly invited to
participate in these discussions.
From the foregoing outline it will
be seen that a programme of rare
merit will be presented, so good
that no one interested in growing,
feeding or marketing live stock
cau afford to miss the meeting.
Those engaged in the live stock
industry have been unusually
prosperous the past year and the
annual meeting of the Texas Live
Stock Association at Galveston,
January 17 to 20 ought to and will
be largely attended and product-
ive of good results.
John T. Lytle, Pres.
Tex. Live Stock As’n.
Tories P. BrowD, Sec.
Ttx. Live Stock As’n.
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With apparently perfect friendlitites and
freedom. The inspector affeoted to treat
the Whole thing as a joke, a bit of spoof
that he was far too wary a bird to be
taken in by.
It wasn’t likely that such an old hand
aa Salter would try to ran anything but
tho schlenters after giving himself
away as completely as ho had done, at
least no% th^t Umo— some other time
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Lecture by Prof. R. T. Hill
Before National Geo-
graphic Society.
Washington Star.
large *audience heard the
lecture, “ Cuba and the Home Life
of the People,” by Prof. Robert
T. Hill of the United States geo-
logical. survey, delivered before
the nat'onal geographic society iu
(kdamtiian ^university hall last
night. Vice-president W. J. Mc-
Gee preskied and F. H- Newell
and R. B. Tnley acted as secreta-
ries.-
E ghty clear and distinct lantern
slides, prepared from photographs
taken by Prof. McGee, showed
views of the scenery and- archi-
tecture, respectively, of Havana,
Ravaut harbor, Mitauzas and
Oieufuegos- .
Speaking of the population as a
whole, Prof. Hill said :
“The quality and character of
the inhabitants of Cuba have been
so variously pictured daring the
recent years of confl:ct that the
public mind ligs.been greatly con-
fused on this snbjec% and I fear,
that my estimates of the Cabans
may not be in harmony with many
current impressions, but I shall
endeavor to judge them as fairly
as possible in the light of a broad
experience with the varied people
o.f all parts of the union and of
the other West Indian islands aud
Spanish American countries.
“ Contrary to many representa-
tions, I have found them as a
class neither ignorant nor lazy.
The higher classes are gentlemen
of education and refinement,skilled
in agriculture, and often learned
in the arts and professions. Some
dwell in picturesque cities, the
largest of which, Havana, with the
refinement and gaiety of a Euro-
pean capital, has a population nu-
merically equal to that of Wash-
ington. Santiago, the eastern
city, is ( >r wat) as populous as
Atlanta, Nashville, Lowell or Fall
River., There are many other
cities, each with more than 25,000
inhabitants. The rest of the Ca-
bans lived npon over 100,000
farms, ranches and plantations.
“ The people may be classified
into distinct group", as the natives,
including white Cubans, black Cu-
bans and colored Cabans ; foreign
Spanish officials and intrans’gents
and foreigners other than Spanish.
The white Cabans are the owners
of the soil, the black and colored
form the laboring classes, the
Span’sh officials the governing
class, the Spanish intransigents
the commercial elass and other
foreigners are birds of passage.
“ The entire foreign element, ex-
clusive of about 30,000 Chinese
males and the army, probably does
not exceed 100,000 people. These
include a vast horde of subordi-
nate officials, all Spaniards, who
collect the customs and attend to
other executive duties. The civil-
ian foreigners, in most cases, are
estimable people, the better olass
of whom are engaged in banking,
trade and sugar planting. T-faey
have no other interest in the wel-
fare of the country than gain of
wealth, and have no intention of
permanent residence. Hence
they should not be considered to
represent tho Cuban or native
people, although their voice has,
iu recent political events, almost
drowned that of the true inhabi-
tants. .
“ The Iod^ct classes of the Span-
ish male population of Havana
are organized into a dangerous
and often uncontrollable military
force, known as the volunteers,
wjj?’, while never having been
take the field, are a se-
ns menace to the peace of the
being feared equally by the
authorities, over whose heads they
the resident and unarmed Cubans,
over whom they hold the threat!
of massacre. Up to date the rec-
ord of this organized mob has
been a series of horrible crimes,
such as shooting down a crowd
of peacehble citizens as they
emerged from the theater, firiDg
into the office and diniDg room of
a hotel, assaulting the residences
of Cuban gentlemen, and, in 1871,
forcing the authorities to execute
forty-three medical students, all
boys under twenty, because one
of them had beeti accused of
scratching the glasp plate on a
vault containing the remains of a
volunteer. Fifteen thousand vol-
unteers witnessed with exaltation
this ignoble execution.
“ The laboring classes on the
sugar plantations are largely ne-
groes and Spanish peasants, many
of the latter having been introduc-
ed since the ten years’ war and the
abolition of slavery. After the
emancipation of the negroes in
1878, like the southern states and
the other West Indies, Caba had
to undergo a reorganization of its
industrial system, and it maybe
said, to its credit, that the change
was accompanied by far less dis-
tress »od social debasement than
in the other regions mentioned.
At first, fn the universal fear that
the freedmen would not work,
coolies and Chinese were import-
ed in large numbers, but the for-
mer soon returned home, and the
importation of the latter did not
long continue, although a large
remnant of them still remvns up-
on the island.
“Thirty-two per cent,'tare black
or colored—unng the latter word
in Us correct signification, of a
mixture of the black and' white
races. This black population of
Cuba has been as little understood
by this country as the creole, es
pecially by those who have alleged
thafincase Cuba should gain her
freedom the island would become
a second Hayti. While the negro
shares with the creole the few so-
cial rights possessed by the inhab-
itants, his social privileges are
greater than here, although a
strong caste feeling exists. Mis-
cegenation has also produced
many mulattoes, bat race mixture
is no more common than in this
country.
“ The colored people of Cuba
belong to several distinct classes.
The majority of them are de-
scendants of slaves imported
daring the preseat century? bat a
large rusjber, like the negroes of
Oolnmbia and the m iroons. of Ja
maica, come from stock which ac
companied the earliest Spanish
settlers, snch as EUevan, the ne-
gro, who, with the two white com-
panions of Cabeza de Vaca, first
crossed the Uuited States from
the Gulf of Mexico to California
in 1528 36. The amalgamation of
this class in the past centnry with
the Spanish stock produced a su-
perior class of free mulattoes of
the Antonio Maceo type, unlike
any people in this country with
whom they can be compared.
“ Another virtue of the Cuban
negro is that he will work. I ital-
icize the masculine pronoun, be-
cause, as I shall show later, the
male negro of the other West In-
dies, except Porto Rico, usually
occupies the same indolent posi-
tion in human society as that or-
dinarily attributed to the drone
of the beehive. Ia Cuba he works
the cane fields, loads the ships,
carries burdens and performs all
of the harder tasks of manual la-
bor, not as yet usurped by woman
in the United Spates, but com-
pletely monopolized by her sex in
the other West Indies. I do not
mean to say that m*ny of his race
are not depraved or dissipated, as
elsewhere, but I am of the opin-
ion that the Caban darkey is the
equal as a laborer of his brother
in our southern states, and supe
rior to the darkies of the other
West Indian islands.
“Another fact which will stand
against the Africanizing of Cuba
is that it is highly probable that
many of these 500,000 colored
people have been destroyed dur-
ing the latest insurrection. A large
number of them had bat recently
been released from the bonds of
slavery, and were naturally the
poorer classes, upon which the
hardships have mostly faUeo, be-
ing generally the field bands in
the sugar districts of Havana,
Matanzas and Banta Clara, where
the death rate of the terrible
Weyler reconcentramiento has
been greatest. Three hundred
thousand sf the 500,000 blaqks
belonged to these provinces, and
of this 'number, fully one-half
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DIXIE’S HONORED DEAD.
to take in adjicent plots, and
there will be the eetablisnieat of
several natU>u|l,9eiaeberieg. Head-
stones will be erected at the Con-
federate graye^ still remaining iu
c e m e tqries. j M |£
The government now earea for
the graves of 387,296 soldiers in,
eighty-three hatfoniff cemeteries^
The addition of a'small numbep of
acres and the establishment, of
seveial national cemeteries will be
accomplished wit* an increase in
the army appropriation bill so
small comparatively that it will
not be notice^ V-U **
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care to the graves of Union and
Confederate graves alike will
come, it is believed, a joint cele-
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known to be in national cemeter-
ies arfe for the most part at Camp
Butltr, near'' Chicago ; Cypress
HSle, N.1 ¥. ^FVnh’s' J. *
Fart Smith, Ark;; Hampton, Va.;
Jeff rson Barracks, Mo., and
WoodlawH, N. Y,
The national cemeteries are
made as attractive, as honor for
the dead can suggest. But it may
startle the' peppfe wLose souls
have been harrowed by the stories
about the governmeat’a IreaHaetit
of tbevherocs of the recent war
to, kmo^E that of 337,296 griives ip
the nationaljpepaeteries, only. 186,-
I694 abopt one-half, contain iden-
tified bodies. There are 350,887
graves , eutered 'in the records‘as
“Uuknowq,” notwdthstaa’dteg
government’* good intention. The
ways of war are not the ’t'ayS of
The Nation to Care for the
Graves of Confederates.
The Globe-Democrat’s special
Washington correspondent writes
as follows :
Practical application wtiF-follow
the president’s declaration to the
Southern people .'-yesterday that
the “time has now come, in the
evolution of sentiment and feeling,
under the: providence of God,
when in the spirit of fraternity we
should shsifre with yen in the care
of the graves of the Confederate
w A .
The present system of national
cemeteries it is fonnd-fifpon inqui-
ry can be extended so As to em-
brace care of'the Confederate
graves with .comparatively small
expense. Throughout the South, in
many places, the Confederate and
U uion soldiers were buried in ad-
jacent or neighboring plots. The
government has enclosed the
graves of the Union soldiers and
beautified, the grounds. Superin-
tendents are stationed at these
cemeteries and keep them in or-
der. At some of the national
cemeteries the extension of the
care will mean tb enlargement of
the present grounds to incinde the
plots of the confederates. The
same superintendent can care for
all. In other localities the Con-
federate''graves are; not far fcoffi
thfe national cemeteries. The
dead can be removed to the pres-
ent cemeteries or the plots can be
inclosed separately or oared for
by the superintendent in chafge
of the Union dead.
The president’s proposition will
call for the establishment of sev-
eral national cemeteries in the
Northern States. Two of these
will be in Ohio. Large numbers
of Confederate dead were buried
at Camp Chase and at Sandusky.
Both of these places were the lo-
cations of prison camps. It is not
generally known that at the pref-
ent time there are 9300 Confeder-
ates buried in national cemeteries.
These graves receive the same at
tention that is given to the graves
of Union soldiers except that
most of them are not marked by
headstones. Some Confederate
graves are thus marked in national
cemeteries, but the distinction
came about through a mistake. A
former quartermaster general is-
sued an order that graves in na-
tional cemeteries should be mark-
ed with these stones. After the
work had proceeded some time
without any discrimination, the
quartermaster general was shown
the law which directs that only
the graves of Union soldiers shall
be marked. Thereupon the offi-
cer modified his order. But the
stones which bad been placed at
the Confederate graves previous
to the modification were not re-
moved.
There were formerly many more
Confederate graves in national
cemeteries than there are now. Now i8 the time to either sab
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Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1898, newspaper, December 29, 1898; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth731021/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.