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WILL INVESTIGATE
MILES’ CHARGES
Court of Inquiry Has Been Select¬
ed By the President.
ORDER IS PROMULGATED
Personnel of the Investigating
Commission As Appointed.
A Washington special says: The
president has appointed a court of in¬
quiry to examine into the charges
touching the meat furnished the Amer¬
ican army during the war with Spain
and other matters involved in the
charges made by General Milesag'ainst
the administration of war affairs.
The court will consist of Major Gen¬
eral Wade, Colonel George W. Davis,
Ninth infantry, and Colonel Gillespie,
corps of engineers, now stationed in
New York. *
The inquiry will begin at once, and
the contracts as well as the quality of
the beef will .be. thoroughly investi¬
gated.
The order for the court of inquiry is
as followil:
In accordance with the instructions
of the president of February 3, 1899,
a court of inquiry, to consist of the
following named officers, is hereby ap¬
pointed to meet in this city on Febru¬
ary 15, 1899. Detail for the court:
Major General James F. Wade, U.
S. V.
Colonel George L. Gillespie, Corps
oj Engineers, U. S. A.
Lieutenant Colonel George B. Da¬
vis, deputy judge advocate general, U.
S. A., recorder.
The court is hereby directed to in¬
vestigate certain allegations of the
majon general commanding the army
in respect to unfitness of certain ar¬
ticles of food furnished by the sub
■ sistence department to the troops in
the field during the recent operations
. in Cuba and Porto Bico.
In addition to its finding of fact tbe
court will submit an opinion upon the
merits of the case, together with such
recommendations to further proceed¬
ings as may seem to be warranted by
the facts developed iu the course of
the inquiry.
The officers named will repair to
this city for the purpose herein indi¬
cated, and, upon the adjournment of
the court, will returu to their proper
stations. The travel enjoined is neces¬
sary for the public service.
(Signed) R. \. Algf.r,
Secretary of War.
General Miles, when seen, had noth¬
ing to say respecting the appointment
of the court. He has been acenmu
' fating a large - amount of evideuce
Along the lines of the inquiry, but he
has not chosen any counsel, and a
large part of his evidence lias been al¬
ready transmitted to the war investi¬
gating commission.*
The court of inquiry, it is said by
persons versed in military jurispru¬
dence, will be unique in that it will be
directed in its investigations against a
state of affairs and not against a per
sou.
THE BODY OF GARCIA
Arnves At Havana On „ the „ Qunboat
Nashville.
The United States gunboat Nash
ville, bearing the body of General
Calixto Garcia, steamed slowly into
Havana harbor at 1 o’clock Thursday
afternoon, the guns of Morro castle
und the American squadron saluting
her. The solemn booming announced
the arrival to the expectant city.
Everywhere householders and ships
lowered a thousand flags to half-mast
and black streamers soon surmounted
the Cuban banners.
The companies of tbe Eighth regular
infantry, with the regimental band,
were lined up to receive the coffin
which, draned with the Cuban flag
and bearing °tlie a wreath of flowers, was
carried on shoulders of the ruem
iors of the junta between the saluting
ranks of the regulars to the hearse.
The silent crowds, with bared heads,
marched to the strains of a funeral
dirge to the palace, where the body
now lies in the municipal council
chamber, guarded by details of Cuban
and American troops.
On the order of General Ludlow all
official flags will be kept at half-mast
until after the public funeral.
BIG FIRE IN NEW YORK.
Block of Buildings Burn and Loss Is
$700,000.
Thursday fire swept through the
block of buildings opposite Battery
park, bounded by Front, Whitehall
and Moore streets, New York City,and
destroyed thirteen buildings, entailing
a loss of about $700,000.
One fireman, Bernard Clair, of the
fireboat Van Wyck, and was overcome in
one of the buildings, wheu brought
dowlr a ladder slipped from the arms
of his comrade and fell to the ground,
fracturing his skull. Several other
firemen were overcome by smoke and
cold, and a corps of ambulance sur¬
geons were kept busy.
SENATOR S^W RANG LE
_
Over the Legislative and Judicial Ad- P
h,mt°its ro rlation Bill
Ti,rn, 1CT onen session Thurs-
1 v tlm senate had under considera-
5~i£srttXSsst ^ 10p
sUpervi visirur g architect of the treasury
Tl criticised for the
•'mLLhrcughout H construction of public bail cl
the United States.
PEOPLE FREEZE TO DEATH.
The Cold Was Exceedingly Severe
Throughout the Northeast.
A Chicago dispatch day states that
Thursday was the coldest in that
city in twenty-six years. The low
mark in the wenther bureau’s books,
that of 24th, 1872, was but 2 degrees
lower than the minimum of 21 degrees
1 elow zero, reached at S o’clock in the
morning.
Nine deaths from freezing are re¬
ported from Illinois and neighboring
states.
Some places on the lines of the Mil¬
waukee road give out figures as low as
40 degrees below. There are not ten
miles of clear water between Milwau¬
kee and Lndington.
The weather bureau at Washington
issued the following special bulletin
Thursday:
Morning advices show that freezing
temperature occurred in Florida Wed¬
nesday night as far south as a line
traced from a little south of Tampa to
the Atlantic coast just north of Jupi¬
ter, Tampa showing a minimum Jupiter tem¬
perature of 30 degrees and a
minimum of 30 degrees. At Jackson¬
ville a minimum of 28 degrees was
reached.
These temperatures were very accu¬
rately forecasted Monday morning,
when the weather bureau at Washing¬
ton telegraphed the following forecast
and warning, which was distributed
by its Florida stations to all fruit¬
growing, agricultural and transporta¬
tion interests that could be reached by
telegraph, telephone and mail during
Wednesday: fall about 25
“Temperature will to
degrees tonight at Jacksonville and
the line of freezing weather will ex¬
tend as far south as Tampa. Temper¬
ature will continue low Thursday and
Thursday night and will moderate
Friday.”
The temperature continues abnor¬
mally low in all districts east of the
Rocky Mountains, the Dakotas, Min¬
nesota and western Wisconsin, and
the region to the northward being em¬
braced within the area of low and the
temperature, where the readings range
between 32 and 36 degrees below
in the states named, and reached 50
degrees below at Minnedosa,Manitoba.
Zero temperature extends to a line
traced from central Virginia over
Tennessee, northern Arkansas and
southern Oklahoma, and at Cincinnati
the low temperature record has been
broken with a reading of 16 degrees
below zero, the lowest previous tem¬
perature ever recorded by the weather
bureau at that place being 12 below
February 8th, 1895, and on January
1, 1886.
New York, 4 below; Washington, 7
below; Cincinnati, 16 below; Pitts¬
burg, 10 below; Buffalo, 4 below; Chi¬
cago, 20 below; Milwaukee, 20 below;
Duluth, 32 below; St. Louis, 16
below; Kansas City, 20 below; Omaha,
24 below; Bismarck, 36 below;Charles¬
ton, 26 above; Atlanta, • 28 above;
Jacksonville, 28 above: Jupiter, 34
above; Tampa, 30 above; New Orleans,
28 above; Galveston, 28 above.
s Willis L. Moobe,
Chief of Weather Bureau.
FOR HOBSON’S PROMOTION.
A Bill Is Introduced By Represents
tive Underwood.
A Washington dispatch says: Rep
resentative Underwood, of Alabama,
has introduced the following joint res
olution:
“That in recognition of the extraor
dinary heroism displayed by Rich
mond Pearson Hobson by running the
Merrimao into the mouth of the bar
bor of Santiago, Cuba, on June 3d,
1898, and dexterously sinking said
vessel in the channel, the president is
hereby authorized to transfer the said
assistant naval constructor, Richmond
Pearson Hobson, from the construe
tion corps to the line of the United
States navy and to promote him to
BUC h position therein as, bv and with
the advice and consent of'the senate,
he may J determine.”
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HENRY SELECTS CABINET.
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Porto Rican Liberals Displeased With
the General’s New Policy.
A dispatch from San Juan, Porto
Bico, savs: General Henry has ap
pointed Francisco Acuna, independent
liberal now attorney of the supreme
court ’liberal to be secretary of state; Dr.
Coll has been appointed sec
retary of finance, and Federico Dege
tan has been appointed secretary of
the interior
The liberals are dissatisfied with
General Henry’s change of policy.
A WARNING BY CANNON
Against Extravagant Appropriations
Contemplated By Congress.
Chairman Cannon, of the appropria
tiou3 committee of the house, in the
, th ffen eral debate on the
- • it bil[ against Thursday extravagant sounded
Lnronriafions^^ 2g3»S-SlS! and^ practicTuv STSg^GS lervel
bill nor the Nicaragua canal bill could
be „L„;«coliv passed at this session. Although
, Ly 1 z'l disclaimed SDeakimr for
■>.*.»>»*.
he made, coming from the chairman of
the appropriations committee, caused
great interest.
REBELS DESTROY TOWN.
Fearing American Bombardment They
Apply the Torch.
A Manila dispatch says: The na
tives > fea« n 8 the Americans were
Si’Ks-Vi-t: Proved. Telegraph operators
are now
worth their wei 8 ht in 8 oId > and the
members of the signal corps are wotk
iug night and day.
TWO THOUSAND
INSURGENT LOSS.
American Guns Played Daadly
imn Filipinos.
AMERICAN LOSg GROWS.
Over 3,000 Savages Wounded
and 5,000 Taken Prisoners.
Further advices from Manila state
that careful estimates place the
Filipino losses up to date at 2,000
dead, 3,500 wounded and 5,000 taken
prisoners.
It now' develops that fifty-four
Americans were killed in the battles
of Saturday night and Sunday and
the list of the wounded , will ... probab , ,, y
reach 200.
Owing to the aTea embraced in the
scene of Sunday's engagement, a semi
circle of fully 17 miles, details regard
ing individual fighting have been ex
tremely difficult to obtain. So far as
can be gathered, the brush commenced
at 8:45 o’clock on Saturday evening
by the firing of a Nebraska sentry at
Santa Mesa upon Filipinos who were
deliberately crossing the line, after
repeated- warnings, with the evident
purpose of drawing our fire.
The first shot from the American
sentry was evidently accepted as a pre¬
arranged signal, for it was followed
almost immediately by a terriffic fust
lade along the entire Filipino line on
the north side of the Pasig river.
The American outposts returned the
fire with such vigor that the Filipino
fire was checked until the arrival of re
enforcements. All the troops in the
vicinity were hurried out nnd the Fili
piuos ceasfed firing for half an hour,
while their own re-enforcements came
up. firing
At 10 o’clock the was resum
ed, the American firing line consisting
of the Third artillery, the Kansas and
Montana regiments, the Minnesota
regiments, the Pennsylvanians, the'
Nebraskans, the Utah battery, the
Idaho?,, the Washingtons, the Califor- .
nians, the Fourth cavalry, tbe North
Dakoka volunteers, South Dakota and
Colorado regiments, Sixth artillery
and Fourteenth infantry
The Filipinos concentrated th- r
forces at three points Calooc.au, banta
Mesa and Galingntan and maintained
an intermittent fusilade for some
hours.
They brought artillery into action
at GRlmgatan at 10-30 o’clock p. m.,
but only one gun annoyed the Amen
caus to any appreciable extent, a how
itzer on the road beyond Santa Mesa.
The Third artillery silenced the Gal
ingatan battery by firing two guns
Runnltaueoualy, which was followed
immediately by roileys from the n:
At about <. midnight uu there . was a lull
in the firing, lasting until 3:45 a. m.
Sunday when the Filipino line re
opened fire. The Americans poured ft
terrific fire into the darkness for twen
ty minutes.and there was another lull
until daylight, when the Americans
generally advanced
During the night, in response to
Fear Admiral Dewey’s signals, flash
ed across from Cavite, the United
States cruiser Charleston and the gun
boat Concord, stationed at Malabon,
poured a deadly fire from their seconc.
battery into the Filipino trenches at
Caloocan.
After daylight the double-turret sea
going monitor Monadnock opened five
off Mai ate and kept shelling the Fill
Pinos’ Ieft flnuk - whlIe tte ot h er ves '
sels shelled the enemy’s right flank for
several hours.
By 10 o’clock the Americans had ap
parently completely routed the enemy
and bad taken the villages of Palaw
pong, Santa Mesa, Paco, Santa Ana,
San Pedro, Macorte, Paudocan and
Pasai; had destroyed hundreds of na
.tive huts, and had secured possession
of the water main and reservoir a dis
tance of over six miles.
The Tennesseeans joined the firing
line at 10 o’clock on Sunday morning
and assisted in capturing Santa Mesa,
One of the most notable events of
Sunday’s work was driving the Fili
pi°cs out of their stronghold at Faco
by the reserve, a few companies of
Californians commanded by Colonel
Duboce.
PORTO RICAN CABINET
Outlives Its Usefulness and Is Dis
solved By Henry.
A. dispatch from San Juan de Porto
Rloo says: Governor General Henry
hl \ R ordered the dissolution ot the m
? u,a r cabinet, and substitutes for it the
foil ™ de P a rtm ents: States ’ i ns '
Malice and ] interior f
“,iLr *f^itda eLbine* of two Louth? that
be j n 1 does d0€M not n ° l < - orre ‘
ssE&rs, , . , . . j" 1
Members of the cabinet tendered
their resignat ions io General Henry
on g a t U rday. « •
FOLLOWED ANOONC1LLO.
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Another Junta riember Skips Out
From Washington.
Another member of the Filipino
5-i
Pennsylvania railroad for New York.
This leaves Lopez and his sick Ssso
e i a t 0> Losada, the only Philippine
representatives at Washington.
FIVE HEN CONVICTED
In Rustln Murder Trials--One Sen.
tenced to Hang.
A Colquit, Ga., special says: Dews
Bailey, Florence Bailey and Isaao
Gardner, the last of the accused Mil¬
ler county murderers to be put oil
trial, have been found guilty—the
“* “°
Seven men were indicted by the
grand jury for the murder of old man
J. P. Kustin and his sod, Virgil Bus
tin. Burrell Phillips was convicted
on the first day’s trial and George
Phillips on the second. Both got a
life sentence.
Dews and Florence Bailey were put
on trial last Saturday morning, the
case going to the jury about 1 o’clock,
a» d Isaac Gardner was tried Monday
afternoon, the case being concluded
before night. The two juries remain¬
ed out until morning, when they re¬
turned verdicts of guilty.
The jury before which the Baileys
were tried recommended Florence Bai
ley to mercy, and , T Isaac Gardner , re
oe i ved ft s i m ilnr recommendation,
The cases against Henry Phillips
and Zemias Cleveland were nol pross
f d > .not enough evidence to convict
having been secured against them.
It is believed that other arrests will
foe ma de at an early date, and that
other trials will occur at the April
term of Miller superior court. Judge
Sheffield lias passed sentence on all
the convicted murderers, but the case
0 f i saa c Gardner has been appealed
by his attorney to the supreme court,
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
List of New Industries Established
the Past Week.
The more important of the new in
(Justifies reported for the past week in
elude a $15,000 chair factory in Ar
kansas; a $‘25,000 coal mining invest
ment in Eastern Kentucky; a construe
tion company, to build iron bridges,
etc., in Alabama; a cotton compress in
Georgia; a $100,000 cotton mill in
Louisiana; a cotton Reed oil mill and
fertilizer works in North Carolina; an
electric light plant in Alabama; a grain
elevator in West Virginia; an $8,000
flourmill in Kentucky; a 50-barrel
mill in South Carolina, and three in
Texas t.vo of 50-barrel and one of
100-barrel capacity; a foundry and ma
chine shop in Louisiana; a 50-ton ice
factory, and a $20,000 ice and cold
storage company in Arkansas, and one
each j n Mississippi and West Tenues
ge e; a knitting mill and lumber com
pany in North Carolina; a $100,000
naval stores company m Florida; an
oil mill m West Virginia.; a $2o,000
pulp and paper mill in Florida; a $10,
000 rice mill in Louisiana, and two
saw mills, one of 75,000 feet daily ca
pac ity, in the same state; a shingle
mill in Georgia; a stave factory in
West Tennessee; a telephone company
j n Florida,, and two in West Virginia,
an fl a woolen mill in the latter state.
—Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn).
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THE JUNTA DEMORALISED.
Fil | plno RepresentatlveE In Washing
ton ton ■„ In a a Dilemma. n i!emma
It is no secret now that the authon
ties in Washington were preparing to
arrest Aguinaldo just as he fled, but
probably they are not sorry that he got
of! safely and thus relieved them from
the performance of a disagreeable task,
The conduct of the remaining mem
hers of the Pihpmo junta is still un
der close watch, and while treatment
to be accorded them has not been de
termined, it is recognized that they
are in a precarious position legally,
and can secure immunity only by the
exercise of the greatest discretion.
The junta is in a state of bewildei
ment. Senor Agoncillo, its head, fled
s0 hurriedly that he failed to leave in
struetions for the balance of tbe
junta, and they accordingly are de
pendent upon word from him, as well
as hampered by the serious illness of
one of their number. Their counsel,
Messrs. Ralston & Siddons, withdrew
from any relations with them, and
they are accordingly now without ad
visers in a strange country.
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QUAY TRIAL.POSTPONED.
Vh* Temnorarilv ^ In
*" e ♦« ’
A Philadelphia . dispatch says: The
trial of Senator Quay, his son, Richard
R. Quay, and ex-State Treasurer Ben
jarain J. Haywood, charged with con
spiracy in the misuse of state funds
on deposit in the People's bank, has
again been postponed, this time from
February 20th until February 27th.
THE VIRGINIUS VICTIMS.
Bodies Will Be Exhumed and Returned
To the United States.
Senator Money introduced a bill in
tbe 8el3ate Wednesday to enable the
gecre t a ry of war to have the remains
0 f t h e captain and crew of the Virgin
iu?, who were executed in Cuba in
1873 , exhumed and returned to the
/ rhere members o ,
the crew and sixteen other citizens of
the United States executed at the time
*• ™ *-»* identified •*-«• the place t “
graves cannot be
of intermeut shall be enclosed and
marked.
QUAY IN THE BALANCE.
Pennsylvania , , Legislature , , , , Still Mll Haa „
Senatorial Deadlock.
There was no quorum in the Penn
sylvania joint assembly Monday al
™
No business was transacted by eith
>r branch and immediately after tbe
ballot for senator a recess w.a taken
until evening.
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THE SITUATION.
Filipinos Open Fire Upon the
Americans From a Jungle.
THE REBELS WERE ROUTED
Lieutenaut and Private Killed In
Ambush and Six Wounded.
A cable dispatch of Tuesday from
Manila says: Lieutenant A. L. Ford,
eonipany I, Twentieth Kansas infan
try, and a private of that company,
were killed and six other members of
the regiment were wounded near Cal
oocan last evening while reconnoiter
ing. The party 1 was in a jungle, J when
'
lt . attacked by the
was enemy.
Two companies of the Kansas regi- .
ment were sent to the relief of their
comrades and drove the Filipinos into
Caloocan, penetrating to the very
heart of the town. Meanwhile the
gunboats shelled the suburbs.
General Otis finally recalled the
troops, but the natives, misunder
standing the retreat, failed to take ad
vantage of it. The outskirts of the
town were burned.
The Americans are in complete con
trol of the situation within a radius of
nine miles from Manila. Their lines
extending to Malabon, on the north,
and to Paranaque, on the south, are
fully twenty-five miles long.
While a few detached bodies of the
enemy still offer desultory opposition,
the main body of the rebels is in full
retreat and utterly routed.
There are many indications that
Manila is full of desperadoes, who had
intended to co-operate with Aguinaldo.
The police are continually capturing
men and women with weajJops con
oea j e( j ; n their clothing. The vigi
] anee 0 f authorities in this respect
is highly reassuring.
Several attempts were made to as
vassinate Americans on the streets,
b ut that danger is now at a minimum,
The natives are terribly cowed, and
t be precautions taken, especially
against incendiarism, are admirable.
The rebels, who have been swept in
every direction like pheasants in a
battue, die oy the hundreds in the
trenches, for the most part passively,
except the Ygorotes, who charge des
p e rately and uselessly.
The rebel prisoners declare that the
outposts fired, and then everybody
f 0 li 0We d in accordance with a sort of
general understanding.
Of the hordes of troops originally
drawn up in battle array against the
Americans, fully one-third are already
incapacitated, and the others are scat
tered i n eve i-y direction.
The terrible loss of the rebels may
be gathered from the fact that 160 of
them were buried in one rice field on
Monday, near Pasns, and that eighty
sev0U were interred between Paco and
Santa Ana.
• A converted river gunboat did terri
hie execution among the rebels, sweep
illg botb banks of the river with her
g a fli n g guns and her heavier battery,
Hundreds of Filipinos undoubtedly
crawled into the eauebrakes and died
there .
The Americans are working nobly in
their efforts to find the wounded and
are bringing hundreds of suffering re
be ] a to the hospitals for treatment.
The natives are unable to understand
the humane motives which prompt the
victors to succor the wounded of the
enemy.
NO ACTION TAKEN
By the Senate On the Pending Me
Ennery Resolution.
A Washington special says: For
two hours or more Tuesday the reso
lution declaratory of a policy of this
government in the Philippines was
under discussion in the senate, but no
vote was reached and the resolution
went finally to the calendar.
Senator Tillman addressed the sen¬
*. te Up0 “ the i- esoIution . “aking a
ch a ra cteristic and picturesque argu
ment. He maintained that a cleaT,
explicit and direct resolution ought to
be adopted, and not one that was
meaningless and inconsequential. He
predicted that dire results would fol
low the ratification of the treaty, nn
less the United States treated the
Filipinos with absolute firmness and
gave them self government.
CARNEGIE OFFERS FUNDS
For the Establishment of Free Library
in Atlanta, Ua.
Andrew Carnegie, tbe millionair;
steel rail and armor plate manufac
turer of Pennsylvania, has offered tc
give l ^ $100,000 for the establishment of
free library iu Atlanta, Ga.,
the ink greatest in the south, i»i. one which
.ill the beet in
„f which all this country will be proud,
Building, books and site will reach
close tb $200,000.
The only conditions attached are
that the city • furnishes a site and
maintains thedibrary at a cost of not
less than $5,000 a year.
MAKERS OF ICE MEET.
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The Southern Exchange Holds Con
ventlon In Chattanooga.
The 8out h e rn Ice exchange, com
firgt dny . s geBS j on8 were devoted to
or g Bn j 2a ti on a ud general discussion.
^ho program includes a number of
small side trips aud big free concerts.
ARMY OFFICERS INDIGNANT
Over Light Sentence Imposed By the
President Upon General Eagan.
A Washington dispatch of Wednesday
says: The clemency shown to Com
missary General Eagan was of such
a nature as to arouse a great deal of
indignation among the regular army
officers. The friends of General Miles
feel that in simply suspending General
Eagan for the term of six years from
his command and rank, that the presi¬
dent intended some refiection on Gen
eral Miles. The wording of the presi¬
dent’s statement of the case in which
he approved of the sentence and in¬
corporated his executive clemency
-ryould seem to indicate this.
What the president meant by “mit
"gating circumstances” brought out
during the trial is taken to mean noth¬
ing less than expressing of sympathy
for General Eagan. The clemency
extended nnd the wording in which it
was done leaves little doubt of ihe re
aentment the president Dels toward
General Miles for the latter s lnsiuu
ations against Secretary Alger and the
beo f contractors.
It is thought that the president
took this opportunity to rebuke Gen
eral Miles for his utterances, but it is
also thought that the president wilf
let the case rest here and take no fur
ther steps in disciplining the corn
mander of the army,
If he saw fit to simply suspend Ete
gan, leaving him his pay and full
emoluments, what possible punish
ment could be inflicted on General
Miles?
The president is greatly criticised
for the extent of his executive dem¬
ency, and shows the influence and flue
handwriting of Secretary Alger.
The sentence is regarded as a virtual
pardon for Eagan’s offense. It puts
him practically on the retired list with
full jiay. It simply forces him to take
a holiday. Eagan is boasting that the
sentence is a vindication and it is said
he will spend the six years of his va
cation in Europe, particularly in Ire
land, where he was born,
The regular army officers in Wash
ington say that it was a case iu which
there should have been uo com
promise, discipline
They feel that the entire
of the army will be demoralized by
the sentence as imposed by the presi
dent.
MORE STORMS IN WEST.
Railroads Tied Up and Loss of Cattle
Will Be Heavy.
Advices from Denver state that a
snow storm, raging in the mountains
aga in, tied the Colorado railroad lines
weg ^ Wednesday. No trains
we re runnimr on the Midland although
„ ar s of sb ovelers were persistently
keeping at work
J W Springer Land’and secretary of the
Continental Cattle company,
reee ived word from its Montana and
r rnn „ h<> , thflt tb „ i oases of i; ve
stock wo „ ]cl y , e verv K ,. eat as a result
of tha lou „ and general storms and
jd
“The loss ” said Mr. Springer “will
be general throughout the western
cou;jtry from Montana down through
Wyoming Colorado New Mexico and
will '
Texas In some places it un
donbte dlv reach 50 per P cent and it
"
tween' wiu ruvl throughout the country be-
10 and 33 per cent.
“The m-eat loss of cattle is hound
tomakehiirh prices durinir the year
as the government reports show'that
tb Laud „ rp 1, a cattle shortage traders and the de
for foreign ° greatly in
crea sfcd.”
Telegraphic advices from points in
Nebraska western Iowa South Dakota
and Wyoming indicate that serious
damago to live stock has resulted from
the cold wave.
In eastern Nebraska, South Dakota
and Iowa the thermometer has ranged
from 16 to 30 below’ zero, but to the
westwarn the temperature had risen.
The entire range country has been
favored with a wind which has drifted
the snow before it, bad a chance to
pack and the range has thus been un¬
covered sufficiently to furnish food for
cattle and sheep.
GR. ROBERTS’ CREDENTIALS
As a Member of Congress Are Filed In
The House
A Washington dispatch of W ednes
day says: The credentials of Brigham
H. Roberts, of Utah, as a member of
fifty-sixth congress,have been received
by Chief Clerk McDowell,of the house
of representatives, and placed on file.
Mr. Roberts will make a determined
fight for his seat when the credentials
come before the house for final action.
augoncillo heard from:.
Cables to London From Montreal Re¬
garding “Designed” Trouble.
The Filipino junta at London has •
received a cablegram from Agoncillo,
the agent of Aguinaldo, dated Mon¬
treal, February 7, “deploring the hos¬
tilities, which have had the effect of
securing the ratification of the peace
treaty.”
Agoncillo also says he believes the
outbreak was provoked by the Ameri¬
cans in order to insure the ratification
of the treaty and declared that the
Filipinos, “far from being the aggres¬
sors, were taken by surprise-and were
unprepared.” ,
DYNAHITE ON THE STOVE.
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Fatal Attempt to Thaw Explosive By
Kansas Farmer.
Charles Roberts, a farmer, living
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wife and child and a negro.
A. C. Darrow. the owner of tha
house, and a negro were badly injured.
The house was wrecked.