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ihHISIRKE' Silrfieons FiJHoilqli a Whole Company. j HOME on frolic. ht to Have Been Lost by The Department- as , Tex.. Sept. 80.—The of last Saturday, in a ork special, made the in— “ Where is Co. K of the United States Regular v ?” and also stated that ' O nly of the company je found at Camp Wikoff, Point, Long Island. R w your correspondent" can orm the war authorities where Mey can find nearly every mis- Kg man of Co. K. They are here in Texas. Seven of Km turned up in a bunch in Has this afternoon, and were at Camp. W. L Cabell, the Second Texas Volun ■£(.r Infantry is located, awaiting Hustering out. Others of Co. K at Corsicana, Galveston, Hherman. El Paso, and a few Haye gone out into Arizona, I I Charles Holmes, a member of ■io company, says : I I “We were in the battles at San ■ uan and in front of Santiago. Koon after the city surrendered Ke went with Genenal Miles to ■*ollo Rico. When the peace ■protocol was signed we were I ordered to New York, and in due ■ time brought up at Montauk I Point. We were tired and worn ■out with campaigning, but found ■no tents for our use at Montauk ■and had to do a good bit more ■of roughing it. Finally a lot of ■ tents in which sick soldiers had ■ been quartered were vacated by i the men being furloughed by I army surgeons detailed for that 'duty. ‘'Although the general health of the First Cavalry, particular ly, Co. K, was good, we were tired and glad to get a rest, so most of us crowded into the tentsand lay down on the ground for a good sleep. “Soon we were aroused by another set of army surgeons, who mistook us for sick men because of the tents we were oc cupying and not knowing that another set of surgeons had been along ahead of them. “This second lot of surgeons simply asked us our names, and hastily issuing us 30-day fur loughs as sick men hurried on about their work. “ <( f course, we were surpris ed, but did not kick. If the gov ernment saw fit to give us fur. loughs, we were not going to ask questions; somebody else could do that and bear the re sponsibility. 1 hat’s why most of Co , K, Is now in Texas and Arizona. e were recruited and did ser vice on the Southwestern border before the war, and were glad get a chance to come back to see old friends. When our fur loughs are ended, we’ll turn up a ll right at Montauk, or wherev er our company or regiment ra ay be stationed.” CHERRY TREES IN BLCOM. Alahambra, Hl., Sept. 30 an y cherry trees have burst in to bloom for the second time this year. Ihe sight is attracting much attention. All of this season’s eavesdropped, and when the fall rains began the trees leaved out anew. Co to Wooten’s drug store in the new Clark building for care fully compounded prescriptions. or v VsSxlEuu.Ui 1 •“ - The Democrats are going to “muster out” candidate Hogan on October sth. That grand old Con federate veteran. Allen D. Candler, will be the mustering out offi cer o o o 1 bat model northern camp doesn’t seem to be so healthy, af ter all. Th« soldiers were no worse off at Chickamauga than were thoi-e at Wikoff Fact is, the health of a camp depends much more up on sanitary regulations and the enforcement thereof than it dees upon its latitude. 000 What profiteth the Khalifa if to gain his freedom he is complied to throw his thousand and one wives away into the road? His harem scare’em flight, in such an event, will reduce him to a multitudinous widowhood« 000 “It is dangerous,” says the Georgia Philospher, “for a young man to say ‘Hawaii?’ to an old maid. That suggests annexa tion, and she’ll doubtless send him to papa.” 000 All but eight of the Spanish prisoners have been shipped from Santiago, one of whom is at Bara coa and seven at Guantanamo, sick with yellow fever. 000 Clemenceau credits ex-Minister of Zurlinden with saying: “it Gen. Mercier had not been so soft-heart ed he would have had Dreyfus murdered.” are doubtless those high in French authority who now keenly regret that they did not force the French article of “suicide” upon Dreyfus. French “honor” would be consderably easier if Dreyfus were in a “sui-> cide’s” grave. 000 The Menlo estate, which has been presented to the California State University by Miss Jennie Flood, is very valuable, Besides the house, which cost $500,000 to build, there are 600 acres of culti vated land immediately surround ing it and 1200 acres the ground of which has never been turned. The latter parcel is somewhat marshy, but can be made profitable. 000 • ' Cargoes oi New Zealand and Australian butter recently shipped to London have been reshipped to their starting points, as the home price for the product is now much higher than the English price ob tainable. 000 Lieutenant Hobson is doing ex cellent work in his task of saving the Infanta Maria Teresa and the Cristobal Colon from the oblivion of the ocean, beneath which they were sunk by Schley’s guns. After having bad the fun of sinking the Spaniards there is a deal of satis faction in bringing them to the surface again to constitute a part of the American navy. 000 Bluff old Fitzhugh Lee has made a sanitary camp and kept his sol dier boys comparatively well and strong down in Jacksonville. It would have been much more tQ SPaIN’S GREATEST NEED. Mr. R. P. Olivia, ofCarcelon ia, S. C. Weak nerves had caus ed severe pains in the back of his head, On using Electric Bit ters, America’s greatest blood and nerve remedy, all pain soon left him. He tays this grand medicine is what his country needs. All America knows that it cures liver and kidney trou ble, purifies the blood, tones up the stomach, strengthens the nerves, puts vim, vigor and new life into every muscle, nerve and organ of the body. If weak, tired or ailing you need it. Ev ery bottle guaranteed, only 50 cents. Sold by t Curry| Arring 60,D00 PEOPLE Witness Gentry’s Defeat Os Joe Patchen FOR II PURSE OF $5,000 Neither Horse Broke--Now Broke The Record. Springfield, 111., Sept. 80.—At the state lair yesterday afternoon in the presence of a crowd of 60,- 000 people John R. Gentry defeat ed Patchen with ease in the match race for a purse of $5,000. Patchen was the favente with the immense audience that filled the amphitheater and bleachers and lined the track for several hundred yards on each side, but the horse was notin the best of condition and was never in the race at any time Gentry was driv en by Marks and Patchen by An drews . The first heat was won in 2:40j, and the second in and Star ter Newton, announced it as fast est race «f the year and also that it was best consecutive heats ever done by Star Pointer, Joe Patchen or Robert J. The conditions of the race were that both beats must be made in 2:05 or less. The winner received the purse. Neither horse broke during the race. The horses had a fine start in the first heat, Gentry having the pole. He went to the front from the first and at the quarter led by four lengths. Then Patchen pulled himself together a little, and at the half mi'e had gained two lengths. He remained at this dis tance until the home stretch, wh»u Gentry gained steadily on him and passed under the wire going easily and three lengths ahead of Patch en. The first quarter was made in 30 seconds, the second in 30|. the third in 32 and the last in 31| seconds. The second heat was a trifle more interesting. Ou the third scoring the word was given and the horses started even. At the quarter Gentry led by three-quar ters of a length, and at the half by half a length. At the three quarters Gentry led by thiee-quar ters of a length and on the home stretch Gentry again forced ahead and won by four lengths with ease amid great cheers. The time by quarters was: First, 31 seconds second, 81, third 30|. fourth. 80|. his taste, however, if the stress of politics in the campaign had allow • ed him to show just how healthy the boys were by letting them loose for a round or two with the Spaniaids at Santiago, 000 There was no disinclination on the part of Uncle Sam to give his soldier boys at the front the very best that money could buy in th<- way of equipment and grub. The trouble arose from the fact of s< many itching political palms having to handle the monev be fore the equipment or the grub got to the soldier boys. 000 The London Standard recently published the following peculiar advertisement in the “Personal" column: A Gentleman, whose wife and daughter have run away from home for a holiday leaving him in charge of a baby, who. although fairly well, appears to ,be cutting a tooth, earnestly desires that they will return home at once. TAX NOTICE. The last half of tax for 1898 is now due the city of Rome. All persons owing taxes are hereby notified to call at the Clerk’s of fice flt the city hall and settle. Sept. 16th 1898. Halstkd Smith, Clerk Council. Moore & Reese now offfer the trade the very fiuist fresh meats tjbe had on the market. FMI9E PfeiOTOGIWHS THE SUMMER HAS PASSED AND CONE IMPROVE THE NEXT PRETV DAV AND HAVE YODR NEGATIVE MADE! !YOTT 3 ■nO KnOW I • •! Qj MW TH IUIU OF | | UUR TUR NOUR. E ELaw * 8k IW YOU ARE I mim INVITED Is si I OVRW VUtOKOR. r lg J. W. kandeaster k