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CU hun .1 I- I oiitiuu Rovornor 01 i. ...... wu,,Rnu uecmros tnat "KriOfll ronnn.tl.U I I.I. nr i in. i t t uiuni ih i ii in nni m r NintoIU18 National Irrl... UOQ d U mil.. t . . . ' -au iu uu itAnsr i ncr a .;rDr.!7T"ai0Urande into i hit. " rort At hur wlon ii. . " new trial. Wdl'i,""",lJ'.B- (in. ...i . " '.vm ourviuu inr -wunuct In H.a ..iji. naval dlscipllno. tfhlde,'F 8 ,"ro. t0 b "'"lelphia bank directors MM.. Tr r o! China - wientl has pro- on ol granting a I U.l ' 1 "iuj. rn i ii .n .. ... . ... ttbt Kil "oily.wcondroundona Ml.. .. kun won . -v vu uninitii-a of -i w ni T"?r Wcangd with h. ... . nun in t. REVOLT GROWING RAPIDLY. antfg In Rsbelllonlnsurgcnt Con trol Santa Clara Province. Havana, Sept. 4. The situation here is far darker than at any previous time since the insurrection broke out. News of an uprising In Santiago province, while not yet published liere, is spread ing about the city and causing the gravest concern. When Mr. Sleeper, the American charge d'affaires here, was told the contents of an Associated Press Santiago dispatch, he endeavored to verify it through the State depart ment, but was told it was absolutely untrue. Subsequently it was verified from private newspaper sources. The extent of the rising in Santiago is not known, bat it la the opinion Mere that tlie worst calamity of all to the Falma government would be an insurrection in Eastern Cuba. The Associated Press was informed tonight by two reliable eyewitnesses mat uaruenaa, which hitherto has been considered a perfectly peaceful city, was tne scene yesterday of desultoiy fighting between police and rural guards on one side and roving insur gents on the other. The only province romalning per fectly peaceful Is Puerto Principe. The Associated Preeg correspondent at Ulenfuegos telegraphed tonight tbat tr&re are 8,000 armed insurgents in that vicinity and that all the small towns In Santa Olara province are con trolled by insurgents, who attack and loot trains and seize the property of foreigners as well as that of Gabana. Trinidad is surrounded by insurgents. and the government appears powerless to protect the property of Americans and otuer foreigners. Hallway trains are held up at will, and passeneers searched. The Cuban Central railroad has declined to assumo responsibility (or the safety of paisengers or freight. Hccrultlng for government forces is making good progress here. Tbe gov ernment continues to make fine head way wherever there is open fighting. The troops in the western part of 1'lnar del Kio have not yet come up with Pino Guerrera, and, according to the Associated Press correspondent with the troops, there is no present likelihood of their doing po, as the troops might march for ten years and all the while Guerrera would be just ahead of them In the hills. There are thousands of mount aln trails with which the insurgents arc familiar and which lead in all directions. If Guer rera cared to harass tbo government, its troops conld to killed off ly sharp shooters. Tho government has no cav alry in Pinar del Kio, and the only real soldiers are the artillerymen, bnt, as they are on foot, they cannot cope with tho well mounted veterans on tho insurgent aide. FREEZE OUT FOREIGNERS. IRRIGATIONIST MEET Fourteenth Annual Session Con venes at Boise, FAIRBANKS THE GUEST OF HONOR American and British Merchants Fear Enmity of China. Victoria, B. 0., Sept. 4. Advices re ceived from Pekin by tbe steamer Tar tar tell of increasing anti-foreign mach inations. The corrspondent of tbo To kio Mainichi roports that Tung Saoyi. vice minister of foreign affairs, Is tak ing advantage of his growing influence iu the government to strengthen tbe powers of Chinese who have been ap pointed directors of customs, having the support of the ami-foreign element among the Chinese. Tbe correspondent says Ameilcan and British communities are much in censed at the Chinese attitude, Ameri cana in particular feeling great anxiety as to the future course oi events in China. The Pekin police have in structed Chinese tbat no premisoB of any kind must be rented to foreigners. The same correspondent says that tne Chinese comissionura who have re turned from travole abroad have bad a conference with the emperor and em press dowager and the decision wao reached to formulate a constitution for China. The Asahi's correspondent says draa- tlo chances in tho central and provin cial administrations aro contemplated. At Pekin there will be a premier and two general secretaries to control the eight state departments and in each vice royalty the administration will he divided Into seven sections. Chitting Ohou Fuh Is quoted to the effect that the constitutional government in China will be established in tho course of from 10 to 16 years. Insurgent Office in New York. Now Yo.lf. Runt. 4. In an office hnllillni at Plnn ami Water streets the Cuban Junta established offices today. Colonel Agulrre, Major josepn a. uaa tellancy and Senor Nordose, who will be the official representatives of tho revolutionary movement in this coun try, were present. There were no cere monies. Colonel Aguirre Baiu mai tno Innti m Mnw York la not to be used for the purpose of revolution. Its efforts, lie said will be directed soieiy to Keep- ng the American peoplo Informed afl to the true coune of the movement. Plotting; Against Mexico. Tuscon. Ariz . Sent. 4. -001118 Hum bert, a Frenchman, and Leonardo VII- areat and Bruno Trevino. Mexicans, were arrested early today atMowry and ntagonla, mining camps, wnere many miners are employed. The arrests were made bv Immigration Inspector Mur phy and Itangers Olda 'and Clark. It is charged that the men are agitators who are attempting to organize a force of Mexican miners to attack Nogalee, So ore, Warning of Mora Bomba, St. Petersburg Sapt. 4. The woman who aMaMlaatad General Mln still re- hiu Ia .llulnaA hur Irlsntltv. hilt aha admit that ker passport ia falsa and baa warned her Jailers tbat St. Ftrs bar is ob ttaa ava ef a iwIm oi aeta ol torrerisw, Vice President of United States Given Cordial Reception Delegates From Manx States. Boise, Idaho, Sept. 8. Boise is fill ed with people and filled with enthu siasm. The city gates have been thrown open and hosts of visitors from all parts of the West have poured in by the trainload to attend tbe 14th annua session of the National Irrigation con greai and have a good time. Notwith standing the big crowd, tbe biggest .uoiBe ever saw, the citizens are happy, for their congress bids fair to be the most successful ever held. The first day of the congress passed off according to schedule. Speeches, nu raerous but brief, all dealt- with the subject uppermost in the minds of tbe people irrigation and home building in the aid West. President Roose velt's letter, read by Gifford Pinchot. was the keynote, and tbe talk of Vice President Fairbanks followed along the lines of that letter. Fairbanks was the star attraction at tht) congress. He was greeted by hun dreds prior to and after tbe meetings, and at the public reception tonight was tendered a typical Western welcome. H.'b speech this mornlrig.made a.decid ed hit, demonstrating to tbe congress tbat tho vice president, like tbe presi dent, had given an ear to the demands ol tbe people of tho Wost and stands ready to lnd them a helping hand at every turn. It It? the intention of a certain olo ment to push the $100,000,000 idea at tho subsequent sessions of the congress. Fred J. Keisel, of Salt Lake, is the principal promoter of this idea, but there is little liklihood tbe congress will Buppot him. President Roosevelt in his letter very clearly expresses his disapproval of tho scheme, stating in plain language that there must be no direct appropriation for tho construe tlon of government irrigation works until the present national irrigation law has beon proven a success and money invested has been returned to the Federal treasury. GREAT FLEET IN REVIEW. Pres'dent Roosevelt Sees America's Naval Strength. Oyster Bay, Sept. 4. Under skies that broke brilliantly blue before a whistling westerly wind which swept down Long Island sound and blew out to sea tbo sullen clouds and tempestu ous rains wihch threatened immeasura bly to mar the spectacle, President Roosevelt yesterday, within hailing distance of his summer home, reviewed the meat magnificent naval fleet ever assembled under tbe American nag. Forty-five of the moBt splendid types of fighting vessels afloat lay at anchor in three long columns as the naval yacht Mayflower, wnich JuBt a year ago was written into history as the meeting ground of Russia and Japan, pabsed up and down tho lines, the president an applauding spectator on the bridge. The Mayflower's Journey was made amid a continuous boom of saluting cannons, and gun atfor gun spoke tbe navy's honor to tho commandor in chiof ol all America's military forces. Tbo 45 vessels aro all within range of Sacamore and could train 1,178 guns on tho summer residence of the presi dent. Indeed, they roared out to him a tremendous ealuto as ho came among them on tho Mayflower and last night they painted the hieroglyphics of peace on the sky with their searchlights for his edification. The fleet reviewed by the president consisted of 12 battleships, four ar mored cruisers, Ave monitors and un protected cruisers, six torpedo boat de stroyers, six torpodo boats and two submarine boats. Rebels Search All Trains. Havana, Sept. 4. Tho Cuban Cen tral Railway company today made pub lic announcement that it would no longer accept freight or merchandise for transfer over its lines except at own er's risk. It is stated that this 1b nec essary because nearly all of its trains are held up and their cargoes Inspected by armed bands of insurgents. Late tonight the government learned that 400 insurgents had entered the town of Calabazar, in Santa Olara province, had confiscated a quantity of arms and taken many head of horses. Navy Yard Men In Union. New York, Sept. 4. Employes in navy yards, naval stations, arsenal and gun factories, today formed a national organization here and elected officers. The declaration of principles contains: "Adopt and put into operation an effective plan for keeping the employes more steadily employed by having the men in the different crafts Join hands, in order that the beet interests of the government and the employes can be served.' 1 No Hope for tha Sheridan. Washington, Sept. 4. D s patches re ceived today at the War department from Honolulu indicate that the trans, port Sheridan cannot be saved. She la nearly 14 lied with water and her englaea are flooded and uh1m, TRANSPORT ON THE ROCKS. Sheridan in Perilous Plight on Coast of Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu, Sept. 8. Hanging on a rock amidships, the United States transport Sheridan is ashore on Bar ber's point, the southwestern extremity of the island of Oabu, on which stands Honolulu. Her position is alarming, as she rests on a sharp coral reef with wild surf dashing on the shore and ren dering H well nigh impossible to land a boat, as there is no beach. The Shoridan struck at 4 a. m., and promptly blew her whistles, but did not get into communication with tbo shore until tbe wireless telegrapli sta tion at Barber's point was opened in tbe morning. Sbe Ilea broadside to the shore, and is rolling noticeably. All morning boats were vainly trying to find a landing place, but at last tbe second officer got ashore and saved bis boat's crew, though the boat itself was swamped in the breakers, He denies a report tbat the machinery broke down before tbe steamer grounded. Natives reached the vessel ,th rough the surf in canoe. Tbe Sheridan has aboard 125 through passengers and 50 soldiets, and their transfer to tbe shore or to other craft is a serious problem. Captain Peabody has signalled the steamer Olaudine to take them to Honolulu. If possile, tbo transfer will be made at once, the reve nue cutter Manning assisting. Captain Peabody says that, if power is applied soon, he believes tbe Sheri dan can be saved, but otherwise there is little hope. Tho swell is very heavy and tho coral reefs are very sharp. Good order is maintained on board the vessel. The Sheridan's engines are bo- ing repaired and coal is being rapidly thrown overboard with a view to try ing to float her at high tide. Tbo tug fearless and several inter-island steam era have gone to her asrietance. Captain Peabody is reported to have assumed all the responsibility for the accident, saying that the vessel was in too close. CONTRACTS FOR NEW ROAD. St. Paul Ready for Construction to Columbia River. Spokane, Sept. 3, Contracts for the building of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road from tbe Bitter Root mountains to tbe Columbia river have been let to H. 0. Henry, of Seattle. Tha route follows down the St. Jo seph river from the Idaho line to a point below Ferrell, or St. Joe, Idaho, then goes on to Tekoa, Washington, passes on to Rosalia, goes along the south side of Rock lake and then reach es Lind, on the Northern Pacific. From Lind the line will practically follow tbe survey of tbe old Northern Pacific cutoff from Lind to Ellenaburg. Contracts for a part of the work have been let to Grant Smith & Co. The 'firm includes E. N. Jones, of Jones & Onaernd, railroad contractors of Spo kane. Mr. Jones said tonight: "Wb have our outfit now at Rosalia, and will start work at once. We shall need a thousand men, and we will pay $2.50 a day. Our work is to be done a year from next January." NEW JAPANESE LINE. Mikado Will Subsidize Steamers for Manchurian Trade. Victirla, Sept. 3. The steamer Tar tar, of tbe Canadian Pacific railway company, which arrived today from the Orient, brought news tbat tbe Japan- eso government proposes to subsidize a teamship line to connect Dalny with tho North Pacific coast of the United States, and also Shanghai, Dalny and Vladivostok linos of Bteamers in its general scheme to develop Mancburian tiade Whether the United States con nection will be done by a line between Dalny and i okohama connecting with the already established Japanese lines to Seattle and San Francisco, or a di rect line is not definitely stated. Palma and Capote Quarrel. Havana, Sept. 3. Rumor is busy with suggestions of conspiracy among. tne police and an open quarrel between President Falma and Vice President Mendez Capote. Both reports lack definite confirmation. In certain guar ters Capoto is suspected of bargaining wltb tne insurgents. In the reported quarrel at the palace bitter words are said to have passed, culminating in Palma denouncing Capote as a traitor. The vico president is said to have re plied that Falma was a president with out power. Coast Railroad Buitdlrg. San Francisco, Sept. 3. The South ern Pacific is fast completing its plans for the connection of Eureka and San Francisco and the extension of the road on to Portland, forming a coast lino. The baela of the plan is tbd California Northwestern, which ia under the con trol of the Southern Pacific. It has ust been announced that the junction of the Southern Paolflo and the Cali fornia Northwestern lines will be effect ed at Santa Rosa. Famine Spreading, St. Petersburg. Sept. 8. By the end of September the famine will have spread to the provinces of Hasan, Sa mara and Saratov. The Zeuiatvo treas uries are exhausted, and the whole cost of feadlng the people devolves upon the central government, The grain required in the four province for food and sowing will cost approximately 181,600,000. Professor' Ernst Ilaeckcl'a Important work, "Tho Hlddlo of the Unlfcrnc." hn recently been translated Into Jap anese, Chinese nud Hebrew. At differ ent time tho volume has appeared In twelve other languages, while more than 200,000 copies of tho Gorman original have been sold. Uev. John Francis Lee, pastor of tho Metropolitan African Methodist Epis copal Jilon Church, of Norfolk, Vn., la nttructliif; much attention in the South a a poet, many bellorlug that ho Is tho coming negro poet of Amerlcu, taking up the mhiHtrel harp dropped by tho lute Paul Laurence Dunbar. The IlUHslnti military commander, Gen. Kuropatkln, has flnluhed his his torical work In relation to tho causes of the Itusalan defeat In the far east and the English translation will doubt Jej Boon be got under way. Gen. Ku ropatkln undertakes to provo that his plans were repeatedly upset by orders from St Petersburg. The astonishing fact has just come to light that Professor Richard Gar nett, librarian of the British Museum, who died recently, for years had de voted much time to tbo "black art" of astrology. Even more extraordinary is tbe circumstance that the business men of New York and other cities regular ly consulted him regarding contempla ted ventures. The novel-reader who fondly believes that his favorite "refreshers" are of Imagination all compact is much de ceived. The novelist of genius is even more given to the taking of notes than Is tbe lesser writer Who turns off sto ries "In tbe way of trade." Balzac, his sister has told us, wherever he went studied what he saw, setting down everything which revealed a character or painted a situation. His "meat safe" wus the odd name he gave to tbe book which held these notes. Dick ens recorded diligently his observations of peculiarity in person as well as strange Incidents, suggestive names, nvailuble scenery and tho like. Even one so little given to "realism" In the modern sense as Hawthorne bad an ample store of useful notes. Wllkie Collins Is quoted by an old acquaint ance, in Chambers' Journal, as declar ing that he founded nearly all his plots on facts, on incidents he had heard of or read, or on a desire to ex pose or correct some abuse of his time. Great was his wrath when he was ac cused of Introducing sensational and Improbable episodes In his book, 'The Woman In White." He knew, he said, of very few Instances In which fiction exceeded the probability of reality; and then he revealed tbe source of many of his plots In the shape of a dilapi dated collection of records of French crime picked up on an old bookstall in Paris. "Here is a prize!". be exclaim ed, and so It turned out to be. "Tbe Woman In White" was derived from those mouldering records. "The plot of that," said Collins, "has been called outrageous ; tbe substitution and burial of tbe mad girl for Lady Glyde, and the incarceration of Lady Glyde as tbe mad girl. It was true, and it was from the trial of the villain of tbe plot Count Fosco of the novel I got my story." SEARCH GLOBE FOR RUBBER. Many I'erlla Are Encountered In Gatherlnic tbe Gum. From Southern Mexico in tbe north to Northern Paraguay in the south from tbe Atlantic on the past, right through the devious wandering of the many bruncues ana tributaries or tne mighty Amazon and right on, out to tbe Paclflc, on the west; through tbe mys terious, trackless and utterly unknown solitudes of tho Paraguayan nnd Bo livian Chocos out Into Peru, the rub ber hunters are nt work on the plants and trees put ready to their u3e by the bounteous hand of nature. Where they go on 'their journeys or precisely what they do, uo white man knows to this day, or Is ever likely to know, says tho Philadelphia Ledger. Less than a year ago I met with and spoke In English to nn Italian mer chant In the wilds of Matto G rosso, the northwestern province of Brazil, whose capital city Is five weeks' Journey from tho sent of government nt Rio do Jane iro. For twenty years ho had not heard the sound of English voice and during all thoso years rubber has been flow ing through his hands, down the giant River Paraguay, on its way to the mar kets of tho world, via Buenos Ayres or Montevideo. Yet of Its actual produc tion ho knows little. To skip, In spirit, from tho north east coast of South America across tho south Atlantic to tropical Africa, tho Congo, tho Gold Coast, tho Zambesi, Uganda nud othej parts, is not n dif ficult undertaking. But hero nil is changed, and, Instead of having noblo forest trees nt his disposal, tho rub borhunter finds himself dependent on snaky, climbing, twisting vines for his rubber supplies, vines which usurp ev ery Inch of territory they can invade, and render a passage through tho for ests a matter of great difficulty and somo danger. . Theso vines, known as "landolphlas." of which thero aro several species, are members pt tno natural order apocy rtaccaj nnd are common to tho whole of tropical Africa. They differ from tho American trees, In that they nro- duco ruhbor In tho center of tho stem, as wen aa from tne celta underlying the Inner comblum, but what quantity ! each plant will produce there are rut data to baso nn estimate upon. Although the landolphlas form the main source of tho African rubber sup ply, yet thero Is at least one family of trees which yields a supplementary contribution to tho sum total. The funtumla or klcksln, of which thero ara two species, elastlca and Afrlcanla, wna worked to a considerable extent a quarter of a century ago, but it doca not now seem to bo n fashionable plant to cultivate a closo nssoclatlonsblp with. It resembles tho hovea to somo degree, but Is smaller, of softer growth, and requires a little less rainfall to luxuriate. Turning to India, and to Asia gener ally, It will not be found that the con tinent is rich In Indigenous rubber bearing plants. Tho flcus elastlca, the Indian rubber plant of the window gardener, Is found In Assam and Bur ma and the federated Malay states, but Its produce Is of very inferior quality. Certain climbers also yield rubber, tho threo chief ones being the urceola, chonemorpba, and tbe Willoughbla. The fact that Para and other rubbera are being cultivated In India, etc., I sufficient proof of the poorness of the continent of Asia In Indigenous rubber bearing plants. Cenra rubber is collected by stabbing tbe tree in a number of places close together, and as the juice exudes It coagulates In the air, and Is rolled up Into balls by tbe collectors. It la usually In a dirty state when It comes to tbe market The product of the flcus elastlca and the other Asiatic plants Is usually sim ply sun-dried; tbe rubber from tho former can be identified at a glance by Its peculiar red color. MINE FOUND BY A BADGER. Pronpector DlKKlntc Illm Oat Dis covered a Rich Claim. N. H. George, Santa Fe yardmaster has taken a layoff of three -weeks and gone to Nevada to develop a gold min ing claim which he has there. There Is quite a story back of his going. Mr. George grubstaked an "old miner who had struck a streak of bad luck. This miner finally found some excel lent surface indications In tbe Nevada mountains and staked his claim. The prospects were so good that Mr. George. his brother and his brother-in-law took three adjoining claims. The old griz zled miner worked away all winter on tbe funds supplied him by Mr. George. His developments were encouraging, but did not pan out large quantities of the yellow metal. A short time since another old miner In hard luck come past the first miner's claim carrying his kit of tools with him. Mr. George's friend was natural ly lonesome nnd Invited the stranger to take a claim. After looking over the situation this stranger decided to do so. An evening or two later the two miners sat on a ledge of rock talk ing when n badger came into sight. The miners gave chase and the badger ran into a hole on the stranger's claim. They went to work with their picks nnd soon dug tbe badger out, and In rq doing they made a remarkable discov ery. His bed In tbe bottom of the hole was made on a big chunk of the very richest of gold ore. The gold in the stone on which he lay was worth $10, 000. In this way they discovered a rich vein of gold bearing quartz which runs through both their mines as well ns those belonging to Mr. George, his brother and the brother-in-law. Mr. George's trip to Nevada Is for the pur pose of fully Investigating his new gold, mine. Wellington Mall. 'The American t.adjr. The home life of a typical American lady Is the slncerest Index of her ego. In It she Indelibly expresses herself. Here It Is that she exercises to the maximum her potentiality and that her personality scores. Presumably she la a wife and mother. Her age? Pouf! A lady of cleverness nonpluses Time. She Is her son's best girl, her daugh ter's chum, a hostess sans reproche. She rules her home with thrift .nud skill. Her husband safely trusts In her, aud her price Is nbove her blrthstone. Her house Is beautiful, Its atmos phere fine and clear. She Is never too busy to listen to her "boy" or advlsa her "girl" or read to their father. Young people en mnsse delight In her. She Is their Ideal mother and friend. Laughter Is never hushed In her home. Music Is welcomed and budding merit of whatever sort finds In her nn car nest nnd sympathetic ear. Thomas An trim, In Llpplneott'B. And Are Tuuek Ones, f Jrnts are really very long lived, con sidering their minuteness. Janet had two queens under observation for tea years, and ono of Sir John Lubbock'a ant pets lived Into her fifteenth year. Ants nre very teuaclous of life after severe Injury. Following loss of tho eutlro abdomen they sometimes livo two weeks, and In ono case a head less ant, carefully decapitated by an tiseptic surgery, lived for forty-one days. A carpenter nut after being sub merged eight days In distilled watery camo to llfo upon being dried, so that they aro practically proof ngalust drowning. They can live for long periods with out food; In ono case tho fast lasted nearly nlno months before tho ant Btarved to death. Scientific American. Mystery No Louurer. "I Beo Prof. Reld Bays tho earth has a big hole In Its centorv" "Ah, perhaps that explains why tha world Is such a hollow mockery." It is very hard for a man to pay a. doctor bill after ho once gets the germ into his mind that m would jmva oti ten well anyway