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THE WEEKLY TRLEGRAPR; TflESD A Y. AI .GUST 21.18P3.—TWELVE PAGES.
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As leading and responsible manufacturers, we ask the confidence of the public in the truth of our statements.
A GENUINE SURPRISE IN CIGARS.
GRAND REPUBLIC BUFFOS, 4 for Tan Cants.
A Splendid Twenty Minutes Smoke for 21-2 cents.
ARE combination of FINE QUALITY with astonishingly LOW PRICES.
No connection whatever with what are known as “cheap cigars.”
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looks and peculiarity of package are easily imitated. Originated and patented by
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, CAUTION TO DEALERS.AND RETAILERS.
We hereby notify the Trade that we will vigorously prosecute aii imitations on the
“Grand Republic Cigarros” or Buffos” as regards to style of packages. Red Seal and
veneer package. GEO. P. LIES & CO., New York.
id Repablie and Gita Hand-Made Havana 10 cent fas.
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m MAN’S LAM-D.
1 he Neutral Strip and the
Inhabitants.
ITS DISTINCTIVE PECULIARITIES.
A Country Where Judff* Lynch 1* Supreme
—ilhnructeiUtic IuddeuiM of Kvorjr-
Way Life• What 1* Seeded
• Ihere.
Correspondence St. Louis Republican.
BebkCitv, No Man’s Land, August 4.—
No Man’s Land, or the Neutral Strip, as it
is sometimes called, is the political W hat
Is It?of the United States. It is appar
ently under no government, at least the
forces of government have seldom fceen
exercised there, and the people residing
there do about as they please.
This tract of laud is bounded on the
ess*, hy the Indian Territory, on the nortli
by Kansas and Colorado, on the west by
New Mexico and on the south by Texas.
It is a little over 168 miles long from east
to west, and a fraction over tbirtv-four
milea in width from north tosouth. neon-
tains 5.638 square miles, or 3,672,64u acres.
Excluded from the boundaries of the
neighboring States and Territories, it has
always been outside of dny political juris
diction. It is simply a part of the public
domain over which the land laws have not
been extended, aud within the limits of
which no tribunal, civil or criminal, has
jurisdiction to protect property or punish
crime.
'1 he lands in the “strip” are about the
finest in the United States, and equally well
adopted to agricultural and grazing pur
poses. The surface is rolling und well wa
tered, and valuable coal deposits have
been discovered at several points in the re
gion. Until lately the “strip" was almoit
entirely fenced in and controlled by a
number of foreign cattle barons, but since
the breaking up of illegal enclosure snd
use of the public domain by the Cleveland
administration there has b.en a great ruth
of people of all conditions to the locality.
A LAND WITHOUT LAW.
The conditions of No Man’s I-and are
peculiar. While the United States gov
ernment has unquestionable sovereignty
over ih- region, only in one instance has it
ever exercised it." This was when it or
dered the cattle barons, who had usurped
this strip, to tear down their fences. ’• he
“King’s writ does not run” in the region.
It is claimed that criminals are safe from
arrest ihere. and it is certain that no effort
™ ever U«.a made to punish violent
crimes committed within tne region. It
can be established to ihe satisfaction of
any one interested, that fifty-seven known
of murders have been committed in No
Man’s Land during the past ten months.
1 his forms a record of unpunished crime
that ought to make all Americans ashamed
of themselves. The region is overrun
with thieves and murderers from every
co>ncr of the United States, and no per
son’s life or property in the vicinity can
he considered safe.
For a long time the only attempt at
government in No Man’s Lend was made
by a vigilante committee. That commit-
lee is still alive and active, lut about a
_jesr ago it vi.-. !. i . |.irti-n of its jur:-
“city," in the eastern portion of the “strip."
After the cattle barons were forced to pull
down their fences, a number of industri
ous farmers and men engaged in a small
way in the cattle business settled oil
Beaver river and soon had a flourish
ing community. Wives and children
were settled in homes, and merchants,
doctors and lawyers flocked in. The
people of the community held a conven
tion and Beaver “county” was organized
and a county government formed with
the consent of the governed. A small
court house was limit, a judge, sheriff,
clerk and commissioners elected, and all
the forms of an old-fashioned couuty -or
ganization established. . Soon afterwards
the “county” commissioners granted a
chatter to Beaver “City,” and u mayor,
marshal and board of aldermen were
elected, aud a code of municipal laws es
tablished. Beaver City is now a flourish-,
ing town of 400 people, witli a newspaper,
the Territorial Advocate, two churches, a
public hall, several substantial mercantile
houses, two livery stables and the usual
compliment of lawyers, doctors,cranks and
philosophers.
ENFOHCUHI LAWS.
The laws of the county are modeled
after the laws of the border counties of
Kansas. Of course there was no supreme
authority for the organization of the coun
ty, and the officers have no. authority ex
cept the support of a majority of the peo
ple. This is sufficient, however, for the
present purposes. Soon after the county
was organized, a couple of men refused to
pay the sheriff the voluntary tax for the
erection of a school house and court house
that had been agreed upon. The sheriff
appealed to the chairman of the strip vig
ilance committee and that functionary told
the sheriff that he should exhaust his o» n
strength first, aud that if he was not
powerful enough, the supreme authority of
the region — the vigilance committee—
would take a hand. The sheriff called a
public meeting and every man in the county
formed in line and marclud in a body to
the recalcitrants and informed them u.at
they would either have to put up or go be
yond the “county” lines. The two men
still refused to put up. They said they
left Kansu to esespe taxation, and dint
they did not purpose to pay taxes. They
bad no children to go the school, they said,
and would not ap|ic»l to the county court
or the countv officers under any circum
stances, therefore they were asked to give
something for nothing.
Their arguments were not deemed suffi
cient and they were ordered to move their
stock aud chattels beyond the county line
within twenty-four hours. They refused
to move, and at the end of twenty four
hours the men of the county assembled
with wagons, loaded the cooking utensils
and household goods of the kickers on
wagons and drove themselves ^ and cattle
ten miles, or haii a mite beyond the
hounds of the county.
This display of strength was sufficient
for the county government, and since then
the decrees of the county court and com
missioners have been lived up to rigidly,
or the persons not liking the arrangement
moved beyond the jurisdiction voluntarily.
A PEACEABLE 00 MM UNITY.
Beaver City at the outset had some diffi
culty in collecting licenses from saloon
keepers, merchsnU and others subject to
municipal tax, but as the cuunty. chartered
the city, the latter appealed to. its parent,
and a demonstration in force being made hy
the |M*oplr the taz-shirken came to terms,
lh-aver City and Beaver county are well
d, peaceable sad procpeioas 00
rnunities. Outside of that little tract about
fifteen square miles, there is nothing like
government in No Man’s Land curie** we
call theadministrationof Judge Lynch gov
ernment. When Judge Lynch gets ta work
under favorable conaitions he tucceeds in
making a very eflectivo government and a
reasonably peaceable people. Judge Lynch
understands his business in No Man’s
Land, and his edict is the supreme law.
He only aims to -protect honest people
anxious to lead quiet lives. The outlaws,
robbers and murderers lie docs not bother
with so long as they confine operations to
one another; but the moment that a dee
per do in'erferes with a peaceable citizen,
.1II.Li- I yin h lakes a liailil.
There are two classes of people in No
Man’s Land. One class is composed of in
dustrious, peace-loving settlers, who culti
vate the land, attend to their flocks and
herds or engage in legitimate business,
mercantile or otherwise. The other clast
is composed of fugitives of justice, mur
derers, thieves of all descriptions, natu
ral loafers, gamblers and vile women. The
latter class can rob each other, kill each
other, chest each other, maim each other,
burn each other’s domiciles and do any
thing else they please among themselves
and Judge Lynch takes no cognizance.
Hut if a member of the latter class inter
fere with the peace and happiness of the
former class. Judge Lynch immediately
strings the offender or chases him beyond
the borders of No Man's Land.
TUB Ft Its T U Mil It ELLA.
Courage Necessary n Century nnd n Half
Ago to Carry nn Umbrella.
Bronx the English Illustrated Magazine.
It is recorded that Jonas I Ian wav, born
in 1712 (the founder of the Magdalen Hos
pital, a noted pbilanthrppist and traveler),
was the first man who had the courage to
walk through London town in Ihe rain
carrying an umbrella for his own u>e.
Imagine the strength of mind required to
wail down Fall Mail for the first time thus
distinoaiohed among the jeering crowds!
He Lad recently returned from Persia,
where he had acquired this luxurious hab
it, aud »as moreover ir. delicate health,
which was considered somewhat of a fa r
excuse for this elleminate practice. As
umbrellas were already iu vogue in
France, ike London mob pointed their jests
by mockingly calling him “a mincing
Frenchman,”
It must have been about A. D. 1 60 that
he first ventured on this hold step, perse
vering therein till the day of his death in
1786, hy which time the fashion he had
thus set was very generally adopted. But
fashion traveled slow in those days, and it
was uot until 1780 that a surgeon of the
name of Jameson ventured to use an um
brella in Glasgow, while Dr. Spens was
the first person, who, about the same period
found coursge to use one iu Edinburg.
Hence it appears that the umbrella as a
British institution is a mushroom of only
one century’s growth.
Iu the autobiography of a certain Mr.
MacDonald, he tells us that in 1778 he
brought.from Spain a tine silk umbrella,
hut could not use it with, any comfort, as
the people shouted to him, “Frenchman t
why don’t you get a coach?''
About this lime, however, it became
customary to keep an umbrella for hire in
village taverns and in church vestries;
i,iv-rtli"lc'- t that man win. ventured to
avail himself of the . luxury
was subject to much ridicule, is
clearly proven by an advertisement in the
Taller, stating that, "the young gentleman
belonging to the Custom House, who in
fear of rain borrowed the umbrella from
Wilk’s Codec ,House, shall next time he
welcome to the maid’s pattens I”
These early English umbrellas were
heavy, cumbersome articles covered with
oiled silk dor leather. Some ingenious
persons covered theirs with feath
ers, on tho principle of f’watcr off a
duck’s back." But only weafthy families
p -s, -ged one of their own, which was
hung up in the hall, ready to be held over
ladies while entering their carriages ra
heavy rain. They were exix-nsive luxu-
uries for rich grandees.
Even when they began to lie more gen
erally. used, the majority, for many years,
were imported from foreign lands; those
for ordinary use were brought from
France and Spain, while India supplied
more gorgeous ones of costly stuffs richly
embroidered.
A Lnml Free Front Lawyers.
Honduras Letter to Philadelphia Itecord.
As to the government of Belizo 1 cannot
tell you much, for to my unenlightened
Yarkce mind the British “institutions”
are a puzzle of the first water. There are
fire judicial courts here—the supreme
court, the grand court, the court of ordi
nary, and tne summary aud police courts.
The grand court consists of seven judges,
mo->t of whom -aie “gentlemen of color,” j
and I noticed that the jurors’ box pre
sented an almost unhrokeu line of ebony
faces, for iu the political as well as the
social life of this queer corner of c cation
caste does not depend upon the hue of the
skin, and there is no destinction whatever
in regard to complexions, even in marriage
coa tracts.
At one end of this court room is a high
platform, upon which is a large circular
table, around which the judg- s sit in pon
derous chairs of solid mahogany, armed,
high-backed acd cushioned with crimson
velvet, while overhead, fastened to the
back wall, is a massive mahoganv tablet
hearing the arms of England. It is as
serted that there has never been a real, live
lawyer in Belize; and, as there is no bar to
prepare men for the bench, merchants, doc
tors, lumbermen or persons of any other
avocations whose character and general
qualifications are up to the standard of the
country arc eligible to judgcshii s.
The grand court is the highest tribunal
for the trial of civil cases, and has juris
diction of all nmounU above .£10. Despite
the absence cf lawyers there is no lack
of litigation in Belize, for, being a place
of large commercial transactions, contracts
are daily made broken or, misunderstood,
requiring the intervention of some proper
tribunal lo compel their fulfilment or ad
just the differences. Therefore the calen
dar is alwavs large ami the court room
crowded. The only appeal to the decisions
of this court is to the queen in council:
but very seldom are cases carried
though the ingenuity cf the
bar, as elsewhere displayed in
worming out the truth, is here con-picuoe-
ly wanting. Whatever lias caused this
unprecedented drought of legal "limbs” I
lo not know. It may be a relic of the
old-time prejudice agssnst the fraternity
yet lingering in the minds of the people—
the same which as early as 1527 cropped
out in the Spanish grant of that year,
whereby the King gave all this section to
FrancisesdeMontejo,expressly stipulating
that no lawyers and attorneys should bi
llowed to go into these lands from the
kingdom of Spain or anywhere else, alleg
ing as a reason therefor that litigation and
controversies would follow them.
E. VAN WINKLE & CO,,
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